Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . free under stones,and constructing a case only when about to RkyacopJdlidce are remarkable for the pupabeing contained in an elongate brown cocoon insidethe case ; in all others the pupa lies free. I have ineviously mentioned that there are oneor two exceptions (which prove the rule) to theaquatic habits of Caddis-worms. The authenti-cated instance is that of Enoicyla piisilla, the larvaof which lives in a slightly-curved sand-tube amongstthe moss at the roots of trees. T
Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . free under stones,and constructing a case only when about to RkyacopJdlidce are remarkable for the pupabeing contained in an elongate brown cocoon insidethe case ; in all others the pupa lies free. I have ineviously mentioned that there are oneor two exceptions (which prove the rule) to theaquatic habits of Caddis-worms. The authenti-cated instance is that of Enoicyla piisilla, the larvaof which lives in a slightly-curved sand-tube amongstthe moss at the roots of trees. This has not beenconsidered a British insect; but, almost at theinstant of penning this paper, I have received fromMr. Fletcher, of Worcester, larva; and their caseswhich I scarcely hesitate to attribute to E. found them near the roots of willows. The female of this exceptional species, as regards habit,is exceptionable otherwise, inasmuch as she iswingless. My larvae are, as might be expected,destitute of the usual branchial filaments, andprobably breathe by means of spiracles, as
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