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button. The hazel-loaf, higher and beyond, cut across its middle and rolled 

 spirally, in form of a pendent tassel, is the work of a small caterpillar, 

 which becomes a variegated, greenish Moth. To the left, on a spray of 

 elder, is a walking-branch caterpillar, of the Swallow-tail Moth (Ouraji- 

 terix sambucarid), suspended for transformation, in a cradle composed 

 of silk and pieces of leaf. On the other leaves of the same shrub, a 

 " Leaf- Miner " and a "Leaf -Roller," both Moth caterpillars, have 

 exercised their respective crafts ; a white serpentine track marks the 

 presence of one, a scroll with silken holdfasts that of the other. On the 

 top of the wall, and composed of grains thence detached, are two little 

 pyramids, built and occupied by tiny caterpillars called " Stonemasons," 

 from the maternal thus employed ........... 228 



" Head amongst caterpillars of his craft," 



COSSHS, the Master-Carpenter of Moth operatives, on the look out for 

 business in heart of oak and willow ........... 251 



31. A SUMMER DAY'S LliK.tM. 



Seated on the stripped willow-branch to the left, is the grotesque caterpillar 

 of the Puss Moth (Centra vinnlo}, the Moth itself being figured 

 beneath. Below appears the singular masked larva of a Dragon -Fly. 

 The centre of the foreground is occupied by a Dor or Clock Beetle 

 (Geotrupes sti i-cni-di-ius). To the right appear the head and shoulders 

 of another common insect of the same order the Oil Beetle (Pro- 

 scarabus) ; and above and between these, with wings extended, is a 

 Devil's Coach-horse, or Rove Beetle (Staphylinus olens). Attached 

 in sphinx-like attitude to the right-hand branch, is the beautiful 

 cat erpillar of the Privet Hawk- Moth (Sphinx Ligustn .... 252 



" That r id 'mi no idle j!;f." 

 A giant in augmented bulk takes vengeance on his enemy of the broom . 271 



32. FAIR AND FIERCE. 



The three beautiful and rapacious insects forming the subject of this vignette, 

 are Dragon, Scorpion, and Lacewing Flies. The first, a small and common 



