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l Ruth it resembles the one I have just c 'eserib.. ed, except being o a more diminutive size,

The great Tiger Moth is another beautiful English species. The upper wings are of a fire, pale, create dolour, barred and spotted with brown whilst the lower are red, with black spots. The caterpillar is brown, with white specks. It feeds upon nettles, changes into a chrysalis in May, and produces a moth in .Trine, which frequents lettuces and other pot..herbs.

Caterpillars, or larvae of the LEPI OPTERA order, have different modes of sheltering then . selves from the changes of the weather and the ravages of their enemies. Some of them roll

p the leaves of plants for their habitations others, which feed only on the interior surface of leaves,, lodge themselves under the outward bkin others conceal t,hemseli cs in woollen cloths, skins of beasts and birds, &c. That of the =' alma ~iia na, found principall:y'on willows and. poplars, at the time of undergoing its change descec ds to the lower hart of the tree, forming a glutinous case as a security, by moistening the woody fibres of the tree with, its saliva. This ingenious coat of nail, resenx~ tiling the colour of the bark, is well adaptedd to elude observation, and is so close as to resist

he frost, and t   trong to be successfully

attacked.