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Fig. 7. 
silky net, which they have spun to serve as their covering. When dis¬ 
turbed, they let themselves down singly by threads to the ground, where 
they contrive to hide themselves. The insects moult three times, and 
about July they form themselves a cocoon, generally between two 
leaves, in which state they remain 
three or four weeks, till the appear¬ 
ance of the moth in August. 
Fig. 7* shows the eggs on a branch; 
the caterpillar in its last state, when 
it becomes thickly covered with hairs ; 
the cocoon; and the moth, which is 
of the natural size. 
The best mode of preventing the 
ravages of these insects is to destroy 
their eggs ; but when this has been 
neglected, the caterpillars should be 
sought for in May, before their third 
moulting; till which time they are 
always found in large assemblages, 
and are consequently more easily de¬ 
stroyed. The scientific name of this caterpillar was Bombyx neustria, 
but it is now generally called Clisiocampa neustria. 
REVIEWS. 
Instead of giving (as I intend to do in future), only an account of the 
plants figured in the Botanical periodicals for the last month, I shall begin 
with giving a short summary of the most beautiful plants which have 
been figured in them during the past year ; and perhaps few years have 
been more prolific in splendid plants. As a proof of this I need only 
mention Fuchsia corymbiflora, (Bot. Reg. t. 70, December,) a Peruvian 
species, raised by Mr. Standish, nurseryman at Bagshot, and somewhat 
resembling F. fulgens, but very much handsomer, and Ipomoea or Pharbitis 
Learii, (Paxt. Mag. of Bot. January,) a Ceylon shrubby climber, which 
it is supposed will prove half-hardy, but which, in a stove in Knight’s 
Exotic Nursery, King’s Road, Chelsea, produced many thousands of 
blossoms during the summer of 1840, and continued flowering for several 
months in succession. Thunbergia aurantiaca, the orange Thunbergia, 
