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THE SEBST1T0TE. 
the little ‘water-crickets,’ which 
may he found running under the 
pebbles, or burrowing in little 
galleries in the banks; and those 
‘ caddises ’ which crawl on the bot- 
tom in the stiller water, enclosed, 
all save the head and legs, iii a 
tube of sand or pebbles, shells or 
sticks, green or dead weeds, often 
arranged with quaint symmetry, or 
of very graceful shape. Their 
aspect in this state may be some- 
what uninviting, l)ul they compen- 
sate for their youthful ugliness by 
the strangeness of their transfor- 
mations, and often by the delicate 
beauty of the perfect insects, as the 
* caddises,* rising to the surface, 
become flying Phryganew 
and sand-flies), generally of various 
shades of fawn-colour; and the 
water-crickets (though an un- 
scientific eye may be able to discern 
but little difference in them in the 
‘ larva,’ or imperlect state) change 
into flies of the most various shapes, 
-T-one jierhaps into the great slug- 
gish olive* Stono-lly’ (Ptr/a bicau- 
dala); another into the delicate 
lemon - coloured ‘Yellow Sally’ 
{Clirgsoperlaviridis) ; another into 
the dark chocolate ‘Alder’ {Sialis 
lutarca) ; and the majority into 
duns and drakes {Ephemera ;) ; 
whose grace of form and delicacy 
of colour give them a right to rank 
among the most exquisite ol God’s 
creations, from the tiny ‘ Spinner’ 
{Babies) of iridescent glass, with 
gorgeous rainbow -coloured eyes, 
to the great ‘ Green I trake’ {Ephe- 
mera vulgata), known to all fisher- 
men as the prince of trout-flies.” 
This apd the passage that follows 
are aimed at inciting anglers to 
entomologize. Mr. Kingsley, hipi- 
self an angler, holds that race in 
higher respect than we do, 
EXTRACTS. 
Notes on Noctuj:: fhom 
Guenee’s Noctuelites. 
[Contiaued from p. 58. ] 
Jleliophobus. 
The larvae of this fine genus 
live in the style of those of Xglo- 
phasia, but they are easily distin- 
guished from them as well as from 
those of Agrolis. This genus is 
very natural, were it confined to 
the single Popularis ; but when 
we attempt to introduce other spe- 
cies it becomes very heteroge- 
neous. Not wishing to split up 
the genus ad infiniliun, I have 
divided it into groups. The first 
group contains the type of the 
genus ; its larva is perfectly 
known, and has many points of 
relation with those of certain Lu- 
perincB, and, like them, feeds at the 
roots of grasses; it is particularly 
shining, thick, and is attenuated 
at the ends, and coils itself up 
immediately that it is disturbed. 
The perfect insect at first glance 
resembles a Neuria, which was 
long placed in the same genus; 
but it is the whitish nervures 
sharply exquessed on a brown 
ground-colour which occasion 
this resemblance, which is only 
apparent. Tho female in the size 
of the abdomen surpasses all 
known European species. The 
male flies with vivacity at dusk, 
and one may easily procure con- 
siderable numbers by placing a 
light near a window looking into 
the country, at the close of sum- 
mer. 
The second group affords us a 
curious anomaly. The female, 
until recently unknown, has been 
