!16 



THE UNIVERSE. 



find represented wild-goose fowling with the net, and people 

 carrying these birds in panniers. Lepsius, in his beautiful 

 work on Egypt, has reproduced some of these foAvling 



180. Egyptian carrying Geese to tlie Market. — From Lepsius, taken from the Pyramids. 



scenes from the paintings and bass-reliefs of Beni-Hassan 

 and the great pyramids of Gizeh. 



Some insects, when they remove from their dwellings, 

 obseive a degree of order which is no less remarkable. 

 One species of Le}ndoptera has become celebrated on ac- 

 count of the law which its larvic constantly follow during 

 their peregrinations. When the troop issues from the lair 

 or sack in which the whole family have l_)een sheltered in 

 a mass, one caterpillar marches at the head; then come 

 two ; after that three ; next four abreast, the squadrons 

 always augmenting and marching regularly one after the 

 (jther. Their tiles, which sometimes stretch out for a length 

 of thirty to forty feet, in this way make uiunerous windings 

 over the downs and roads, imitating the order of a proces- 

 sion in movement. This has procured for the butterfly 

 which oives birth to this dangerous cohort the name of 



