CATERPILLARS. 



examining the leaves of nettles which appear folded 

 edge to edge, in July and August, the caterpillar may 

 be readily found. 



Nests of the Hesperia Malva, with Caterpillar. Chrysalis, and Butterflies. 



Another butterfly (Hesperia rnalvm) is met with 

 on dry banks where mallows grow, in May, or even 

 earlier, and also in August, but is not indigenous. 

 The caterpillar, which is grey, with a black head, 

 and four sulphur-coloured spots on the neck, folds 

 around it the leaves of the mallow, upon which 

 it feeds. There is nothing, however, peculiarly 

 different in its proceedings from those above de- 

 scribed ; but the care with which it selects and rolls 

 up one of the smaller leaves, when it is about to be 

 transformed into a chrysalis, is worthy of remark ; it 



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