. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. s, live for a considerabletime, as I have kept them in confinement fornearly three months. They are nocturnal inhabit, being quite active and feeding only afterdusk. They shun the light during the daytime,and hide under the leaves or cling tightly to the AND HORTICULTURIST. 311 branches or in some fork near the base of theplant, always hi such position as not easily to beobserved. Upon disturbance they drop to theground, draw up their legs, and play possom,remaining motionless for some time, and look-ing very much like a small lump of dry ear
. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. s, live for a considerabletime, as I have kept them in confinement fornearly three months. They are nocturnal inhabit, being quite active and feeding only afterdusk. They shun the light during the daytime,and hide under the leaves or cling tightly to the AND HORTICULTURIST. 311 branches or in some fork near the base of theplant, always hi such position as not easily to beobserved. Upon disturbance they drop to theground, draw up their legs, and play possom,remaining motionless for some time, and look-ing very much like a small lump of dry earth,the color adding greatly to the resemblance. This habit of simulating death upon disturb-ance is common to many other insects of thisfamily. They feed upon the leaves, but do moreinjury by severing them than by the amount offoliage consumed. The eggs are laid in flatten-ed batches, consisting of several contiguousrows, and each batch containing from ten tosixty. The individual egg is smooth, yellow,ovoid, and about one mm. in length. The. ARAMIGUS FULLERI. a, larva; 6, pupa; c, beeile, side vew; d, same, dorsal view,theoutline between showing natural size; e, epgs, enlarged andnatural size; /, left maxilla of larva, with palpus; g, undersideot head ; h, upper side of same, enlarged (after Riley.) female shows a confirmed habit of secretingher eggs, which are thrust between the loosebark and the stem, especially at the base justabove the ground. In the twenty odd batcheswhich I have examined they have invariablybeen thrust either between the loose bark and asabove described, or into any other crevice thatcould be found; as, for instance, that paper around the edge of the bell glass inwhich some of my experiments were rarely they are laid between the earth andthe main stem just at the surface of the eggs are so firmly glued together and to theplace of deposit that they are not easily seen,and are with extreme difiiculty detached. It isfor thi
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