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Plunf^ed into a pool of water. 
And tlie silk-haired Laura caught it, 
And she look it to her father, 
Took it to the Jolly Douglas, 
And she writ a note about it. 
“ Here’s a note about a bugfly, 
“ Put it in the Wishiwashi, 
“ Put it in the Nambipambi ; ” 
Thus she now addressed her father. 
In ‘ The Substitute’ he put it. 
EXTRACTS. 
Notes on Noctu/e; feom 
Guenee’s Noctl'elites. 
[Continued from p. 34.] 
ApamidcE. 
The Apamida; have characters 
in common with Agrotis and Ha- 
dena, and have been arranged by 
authors alternately near the one 
or the other. Their larva; have a 
strong resemblance to those of the 
former group, and live like them 
if not actually buried, at least 
carefully concealed, and in such 
sheltered places that the light 
1 only penetrates in the slightest 
possible degree. Some are even 
: stem-borers. The perfect insects 
bear traces of this secluded life ; 
. and a true entomologist would 
never confound them with the 
Hadenidcc, in spite of the resem- 
Iblance of some of the Apamidm 
with the IladencB of the section 
•which includes Thalassina and 
W-lalinwn. 
The Apamidm are numerous in 
. genera and species ; and the spe- 
I cies are generally very variable. 
As the creation of the family is 
quite a new one, it may afterwards 
I be found susceptible of modifica- 
ition, and perhaps also of being 
divided. To indicate these divi- 
'sions, I separate them into four 
sub-families ; the first corresponds 
to the family Gorlynidm of Du- 
ponchel : in it we find many larv® 
com|ileiely stem-boring, but the 
greater part live simply concealed 
amongst roots ; the second sub- 
family, which might be called 
Xglophasidce, contains all the spe- 
cies which authors classed near 
Xylina, on account of the elon- 
gate form of their wings and their 
longitudinal markings, but they 
have no other connection with 
them. Their larvte much re- 
semble those of Agrotis, live 
nearly in the same way, and are 
sometimes completely vermiform. 
In the third subfamily, which may 
be called Episemidee, I place those 
Orthosifurin species which hate 
been alternately placed with Agrc- 
tis, Orthosia, and Hadena. The 
antennae of the male are very 
strongly ciliatt d, and the abdomen 
sometimes crested. The fourth sub- 
family contains the true Apumidee.. 
Their larva;, less vermiform than 
those of the second section, are 
still of dull colours and with a 
shining skin, and, though not 
living in the earth or among roots, 
conceal themselves with care. The 
perfect insects have a family 
resemblance, and may be recog- 
I i>ed, independently of the ensem- 
ble ot their characters, by the termi- 
nal portion of their anterior wings, 
