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ZZofJ "": TT' ^°' ^*"^ ^^'^^^'- °^^' ^-' *^- ^ b-^ - of - 
si- edint . ^''' '''' -^*^— fa violet hue: the rest may bs, 
scnbed ,n the same terms used for similar parts of the larva of cera,o.-lJ. 
last J^taTE"''""!''''^''^'"'"-^""'^^^" °'*^"^ ^P-^- -"-ted dan 
ast July at Branscombe, which is situated between Seaton and Sidmouth, I I 
induced b, local., e^oeptiotalta^Hf ^r^rdt^^ rt:^\rs:^^^^ 
Tete;;::; wa' ' ^^^ '^' '^ '-^^ ^° ^-^^ -^^^^^-^ - ^^-j- hL™ 
ha.l.^T''"'"''''*"^'''^"'"^"^'^'"-"^^-- ^- T- P--"' of Huddersfiel, 
haslandlycommumoatedtomethe result of his experience in breeding L^,a. 
thirst '\"u""" ^°^^-^-*^ t'^'^ ^t-tement of Von Prittwitz and Rassl. 
are la d m July or August, that the larv. are hatched in about three weeks, 1 
then feed and grow very slowly indeed until the approach of winter, when eao 
com n ft V "''"' "''"°' ^^ "'^^' ^* ^P^°^^^ *^« -^-1« °f t^e winte, 
omn forth and re-oommencing to feed as soon as the willows and the poplars con. 
mto eaf ^n the spnng This, at leas, is the habit of the species in the north o 
England and. t may be only a proof of the inveterate insularity of the Britisl 
m h) refusmg to adopt continental ways, but Mr. Porritt suggests, that the fac 
have edTt ""• "^ ''' '''' *'"'^^ "^*' ^ crystal-looking substance m. 
have led to the supposition that they were intended to be thus protected throu^i 
the wmter ; and this supposition may have been strengthened by the discovery o, 
the young larv. in the spring still so very small, that they might be thought, 
have been lately hatched. ^ 
Can any one help us to settle the why and wherefore of this difference betwee. 
the Continental and English observers in their accounts of Li.aris saMcis ^ 
Mr Pomtt also mentions (as exceptional facts) that he once had a brood of 
P^Ua ck^, wh:ch were hatched two or three weeks after the eggs were laid : and 
tha on another occasion he bred Or.yia anti.ua from e,,s deposited in the previous 
part of the same season.— Id. 
•. • Ton Prittwitz re,.arfcs that i. „!;„;. occurs i„ Silesia in im„„se swams ■ 
3Pn„!ttZ <^--'""*'») -^» '"-' -'i"a.-i.. the eggs do not ha.«I. tiU 
spnng, but that some occasionally do so in the autumn 
of Ap„I. The egg, are covered by a shining white plaster, which may be trivially 
compared w.th ,p ttle. In localities where the species is common, ft is posTh ' 
to greatly a.,n.u,sh .t. numbers by pickingoir these shining masses, each of which 
encloses an almost entire brood." 
