. The American entomologist and botanist. ure antlbenefit not of man alone, but of the multitudinoushosts of the inferior animals. True, we have a rightto destroy these inferior animals, when they interferewith our wants and wishes; and so we have a right totake the life even of our brother man, when our ownlife, and even in certain eases when our propertymerely, is jeoparded by him. Kill and be killeilis the great law of Nature, from one entl of the AninudKingdom to the other. But when we are compelled tokill, let us always do it in a merciful and not in a wan-ton and cruel spirit; and especi
. The American entomologist and botanist. ure antlbenefit not of man alone, but of the multitudinoushosts of the inferior animals. True, we have a rightto destroy these inferior animals, when they interferewith our wants and wishes; and so we have a right totake the life even of our brother man, when our ownlife, and even in certain eases when our propertymerely, is jeoparded by him. Kill and be killeilis the great law of Nature, from one entl of the AninudKingdom to the other. But when we are compelled tokill, let us always do it in a merciful and not in a wan-ton and cruel spirit; and especially, even when we areobliged in self-defence, or for purely scientific purposes,to take the life of some of these little miracles of per-fection that the poet calls winged flowers, let usnot add insnlt to injury and slander them as disgust-ing, when even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayctllike the very meanest of them I The Red-humped Prominent—of which we herewithrepresent the three stages (Figs. 24 larva; 25 pupa, and [Fig 24]. ti. 26 moth)—has hitherto been louud only on laise, thorn,cUeriy, plum and apple, and especially on the fiudiiTg it on pear, which is very closely allied to the apple, and yet is inimical to the life of severalinsects conunonly found on apple, is a new fact. Thespecies is not very common in the Valley of the Mis-sissippi; but when it does occur, it occurs in greatnumbers, because the mother-moth deposits a verylarge number of eggs upon a single loaf. As theselarva; are gregarious throughout their entire existence,and do not scatter over the whole tree, as do many !3.]
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