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mained unknown, as in the perfect state it is very rarely met with.We have never seen a figure of either in any former publication.

June ioth, 1794.—I found one specimen in the larva state atCoombe-wood, Surrey; it was lurking beneath a branch of hazel,among some small Caterpillars that had formed a flight web on theleaves; as it was only served with vegetable food when confined in thebreeding cage, it died in a few days.

June 26th, 1794.—I shook another specimen from the upperbranches of a tall oak in Darn-wood, Dartford . At first it refused toeat, but shortly after I observed it suspended across a leaf, with itshead downward, and its rostrum extended and transfixed through thehead of a small Caterpillar which had unfortunately strayed into thebox. I fed it after with dead worms, house flies, &c. from which itextracted nutritive moisture, and encreafed considerably in bulk.—>June 29th it cast its exuviæ—July the 2d. it cast another, when theperfect Insect came forth : the larva can scarcely be distinguished fromthe pupa state.

Fig . I. the natural size of the larva, with its manner of feeding.—underside.

Fig. II. magnified appearance of the upperside of ditto.—The per-fect state shewn above.

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