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have noticed. It is to be feared that in our Viva- 

 rium Ave shall not be able to witness the fabrication 

 of these little bracelets of miniature eggs, and note 

 the mode in which they are so successfully woven 

 round the branch selected for the purpose; for 

 Reaumur, with all his patient perseverance, tells us 

 that he could never induce the Clisiocawpa Neustria, 

 when in a state of captivity, to deposit her eggs in 

 this manner. In confinement she seemed to lose 

 her beautiful instinct, and dropped her eggs care- 

 lessly in any part of the rearing-cage, although 

 every convenience and temptation, as it was thought, 

 had been provided to induce her to display her skill 

 in bracelet-making. With the superior arrange- 

 ments of the glass Vivarium over the rude cages of 

 Heaumur, our modern students may perhaps be 

 more successful. 



One of the most curious methods is that followed 

 by the pretty insect, Ckrysojut Perla, previously 

 alluded to, whose small, elliptic, orange-coloured 

 eggs arc placed, like little clubs, at the top of a 

 long slender hair attached to a leaf. In this posi- 

 tion a group of the eggs of Chrysopa Perla has 

 the appearance of a small tuft of some blossoming 

 moss, or it might be taken, by a stretch of fancy, 

 for a bunch of the clubbed antennae of conquered 



