DIALOGUE XXVIII. 
ICHNEUMON FLY. 
MOTHER, Had you much success in 
your search for insects yesterday, Lucy ? 
Lucy, Not as much^ mamma, as I 
expected ; but I did find some caterpil- 
lars ; I have them in boxes, and I intend 
to feed them carefully with the kind of 
leaves, on which I found them. 
Mother, You should write on a nar- 
row slip of paper a memorandum of the 
day when you found them, and the tree 
on which they fed ; with a short de- 
scription of each, and paste this paper on 
the outside of the box. By these means 
you will acquire an accurate knowledge 
of the caterpillar, of the trees to which 
they are injurious, of the time they re- 
