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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the case it is in contradiction to what both of two authorities say, when, on p. 7, it is said that H. virescens and H. rubroviridans may readily become so. The natives are said to eat the plants, which when fresh, have the flavour of a nut, and also use them when burnt, as colouring matter for their tatooing, rubbing the powder into the wounds, in which state it has a strong animal smell. The New Zealand name for this plant caterpillar KHotete aweto. IVeri ami he.?J. Herbert Stott, 63, Manchester Road, Bolton. The parasitic fungus, mentioned by Mr. Stott as Torrubia, is now generally known as Cordyceps, and belongs to the Ascomycetes. Several species of Isaria, formerly placed in a quite distinct genus, have been found to be simply a phase in the alternation of generations which ends in the ultimate production of Cordyceps. In the Journal of Microscopy, 1890, pp. 73-82, is a most interesting paper on The parasitic fungi of insects, by G. Norman, M.R.C.S., with plates, in which the writer refers to a Cordyceps which has a New Zealand larva for a host, but this species is called C. taylori. I would also direct attention to the Entomologists Record, vol. i., p. 267, where similar larva? are mentioned.?Ed.] Wing Expansion.?Has it ever been noticed how much more rapidly the wings of most diurnal lepidoptera expand than those of truly nocturnal-flying species ? It is true that the former frequently place themselves in such a situation that the rays of the sun fall directly upon them while expanding their wings, which is rarely the case with the others, but this cannot be the only solution. The idea of investigating the cause of expansion of the wings of lepidoptera is a good one, and might easily be settled, as far as evaporation or coagulation is concerned,...
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