Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . ugh the shells, which burston the 27th, and permitted the young to make theirexit. These are lively from the first, and resemble theirparents in all, saving that they appear to be verydelicate and destitute of scales. While the young of the black Podura; seemed tobe quite comfortable in the damp cell, these ap-peared soon after to be in an unhealthy condition, and many died. I therefore liberated those re-maining in the cellar whence their parents wereobtained, lest the species shou
Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . ugh the shells, which burston the 27th, and permitted the young to make theirexit. These are lively from the first, and resemble theirparents in all, saving that they appear to be verydelicate and destitute of scales. While the young of the black Podura; seemed tobe quite comfortable in the damp cell, these ap-peared soon after to be in an unhealthy condition, and many died. I therefore liberated those re-maining in the cellar whence their parents wereobtained, lest the species should be have tried several times since, without success, tokeep this species in confinement: they always pineaway and die; and though they will eat oatmeal,they do so but sparingly. * The progeny of b oth kinds of Podura were verynumerous in their native haunts on the 1st ofOctober. Possibly the dampness of the past sum-mer had promoted their increase. In several placesthe under sides of certain boards swarmed with theblack species, and their exuviae were equallyabundant in the same Fig. 46. White Podura {Lepidocyrtus Albinos?). I have lately noticed another Podura—pearly-white in colour, with red eyes, small, having ratherlong antenna;, and furnished besides with long hairssomewhat like the speckled. I am told its nameis Lepidocyrtus Albinos, and that it is the smallest
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