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of gardens; and, if pressed, diffuses a most dia'agreeable odour. The appearance of its eggs differs greatly from that of other insects, having a greater resemblance, at first view, to a minute vegetable, than the production of an animal. Each of them is supported on a delicate stem, of a gummy nature, more than half an inch long, attached to the surface of a leaf or twig. Groups of them may he found on those of the lime-tree in particular, and arc more likely to abound on such plants or trees as arc infested with aphides: the larva' devouring those insects with great avidity, for which they have received the appellation of Lion of the Plant-lice.

The Myrmeleon, or tint-eater, is the next genus. The species best known is the Lion pismire, the larva' of which is distinguished for its curious instincts in preparing a kind of pit-fall, for the entrapment of those, insects that are its prey. The fly is not much unlike a small dragon-fly. It is an insect of Prey, flying chiefly by night, and pursuing the smaller insects with great avidity. It deposits 'its eggs in dry, sandy situations; and the young larva, as soon as they afire hatched, untaught by auy instructor but a natural impalse, turn themselves rapidly round, in order to form a very

mall, conical cavity in the sand   The little

animal