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regard to the economy of the insect, related and accompanied by an admirable 
engraving, in Curtis’s British Entomology^ a work which, for the accuracy of its 
engravings and the exactness of their colouring, stands, I think, unrivalled.—- 
During the autumn of 1834, whilst in Suffolk, and engaged in breeding a few 
larvae of Sphingidoe and other Lepidoptera^ I procured two fine specimens of the 
caterpillar of the Goat Moth, which, from their size and general appearance, I 
judged to be near their time of change into the pupa state. I placed one of them in 
a large white basin with a small quantity of rotten wood, &c., as it had previ¬ 
ously escaped from a drawer in which I had put it pro tempore. On my return to 
the room, after an absence of an hour or two, I found that my prisoner had 
again made its escape, and was crawling at large on the floor of the apartment; 
and upon looking into the basin, I discovered on one side of it a zigzag web or 
ladder, extending from the bottom to the edge, and which had evidently served as 
the means of its escape from so slippery a prison. As I was not in the room at 
the time, I had not an opportunity of witnessing its modus operand^ which 
would no doubt have amply rewarded my attention, not only with respect to the 
arrangement, but also the fixing of its flimsy threads to a wall, at once so ill 
adapted for adhesion, and the support of its large and heavy body, and this too 
after I had witnessed several of its ineffectual efforts to escape. 
I did not then think of repeating the experiment, either with this or the other 
caterpillar (which I had lodged more safely), but in a short time both disappeared 
within the pieces of Willow prepared for them. 
Doncaster.^ April 27, 1838. E. 
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By the Rev. Andrew Bloxam. 
(Continued from p. 83.) 
Class XIII.— Bapaver argemone. — P. duhium. — P. rhmas. — Bhelidonium ma¬ 
gus.—Helianthemum vulgare. Near Croft and Enderby.— Tilia Europ^a. In 
a lane near Coton.— T. grandifolia. In plantations. —T. parvifolia. Near the 
toll-gate between Measham and Ashby.-— Nymplima alha. Ponds at Sheepey ; 
Braunston.— Nuphar lutea. Common.— Helleberis foetidus. Road-side near 
Leir, on the way to Ashby parva.— Aquilegia vulgaris. Near Mount Bosworth, 
on the road to Osbaston.— Thalictrum fiavum. River Soar; near Glenfield; 
Congerstone.— Anemone nemorosa. — Ranuncidus aquaiilis.~-—R. hederaceus.-—^ 
R. lingua. Grooby Pool; Pond on Mr. HassaPs Farm, Glenfield.— R.flammula. 
'— R.Jicaria .— R. aurimmus .-— R, sceleratus .— R. acris ,— R, repens .— R. bul- 
