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to cut out for itself a suit of clothes. Felted with great 

 care, this suit is enlarged in proportion to the growth of the 

 larva, which makes continual additions to it. Should the 

 reader amuse himself with despoiling the worm of its cover- 

 ing, it immediately fabricates another. And as its toil is 

 incessant, if we place it upon cloths of different colors, it 

 forms for itself a perfect harlequin's dress made of party- 

 colored shreds and patches. This insect is the clothes-moth, 

 Tinea sarciteUa (Fabricius), unfortunately too common in 

 our wardrobes, and which, after 

 undergoing its metamorphosis, dis- 

 plays to us a little butterfly of sur- 

 prising beauty. 



Certain aquatic larvre, not finding 100 . ciothes-Moth in its butterfly 

 the fine cloth dress of the clothes- 

 moth a sufficient protection against fish and frogs, require a 

 stouter envelope and choose the most varied materials to 



101. Sheath Phryganea: Phryganea striata (Linnaeus). Larva and Adult Insect. 



make it of. They often form an extremely solid sheath 

 by gluing and fitting together little stones. 



Sometimes, also, the Phryganese for so these prudent 



