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a ram's horn. They may be observed throughout the winter and 

 early spring months, and again in July. The long slender tortuous 

 galleries, with which all who observe hedges in winter must be 



familiar, on the leaves of the bramble, are the empty mines of Nepti- 

 cula aurella ; when tenanted, they are far less conspicuous, and the 

 appearance they present is shown in the annexed wood-cut. 



Rosa canina. Dog-Rose. 



There is no doubt that the insects here mentioned will be found on 

 other species of Rosa than canina, but we adopt that as our text as it 

 is emphatically our common wild rose, the rose which we remember 

 from our childhood, and the rose which has oft lacerated our fingers. 



Speyer enumerates as feeding on it Saturnia carpini, Liparis dispar, 

 Orgyia gonostigma and antiqua, Gastropacha quercifolia, Pcecilocampa 

 Populi, Clisiocampa neustria, Acronycta cuspis (the larva of which 

 excessively resembles that of A. Psi, only that it has a long tuft 

 of hair on the hump on the fifth segment), Orthosia litura, Ennomos 

 lunaria, illunaria and illustraria, Odontopera bidentata, Anticlea deri- 

 vata and badiata, Harpalyce fulvata, Scopula prunalis, Tortrix (lajvi- 

 gana) rosana, Pardia tripunctana, Spilonota roborana and Pterophorus 

 rhododactylus. 



This last-named, though wanting in so many collections in this 

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