INSECTS. 
they subsist - but ^ S Xrr e vidently of the second or third gener, 
he ThiLaterp U inar is furnished with six pectoral, eight ventral, and two 
.JuXoPSkowever, the two Tp^ZS 
feet small, and apparently useless, so that its mode 0 * P o 
somewhat resembles that of the span-worm, or looper, of the North, 
days after the caterpillar has attained its full 
size" it ceases to feed" It' then doubles down the ed 
webbing severafleaves together, fonnin/thereby ajery^oosely-spun 
green^ but^n'a'short^time^fter langesUThestnut-bro’wn, or even 
t0 Tlm°first^brood I raised, were fifteen days in the chrysalis state, be- 
attributed entirely to the cold weather, and non-exposure to the sun. 
Th f fart would tend to show that the hatching ot the chrysalis may 
^ delayed, Py P-uliar circumstances, until long after the natural 
‘“The tail of the chrysalis is furnished with sever ^ 
inward, by means of which it is enabled to hold fast to the loose web 
of which the cocoon is formed, while emerging from the chry gall 
skin, or, in case of accident, to prevent it from falling out ot the co 
C ° There 'have^been many ^fwHtemarsh T Seabrook 
Society in South Carolina, in which he says : T ha - the cottoi a mm 
field. In the winter of 1825, Benjamin Reynolds, of St. John s. 
