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spot, bordered with a double ring of ochre and bhie. Secondaries, ground 

 color same as primaries, with a narroAV marginal white band bordered with 

 blue. In centre there is an ocellate transparent spot bordered with ochre, 

 shaded towards the inner margin with a blue spot, the whole surrounded 

 by a black band terminating in a white line towards the inner base. 

 Raised from the cocoon taken in spring of 1883. 



SPINNING CATERPILLARS. 



BY FREDERICK CLARKSON, NEW YORK CITY. 



Milton, when he wrote of Nature's bounty, and referred to the 



" Millions of spinning worms 

 That in their green shops weave the smooth-hair'd silk," 



had thoughts no doubt of the obedience due from Nature's subjects to 



Nature's King. A work ordered and a work performed. Were men as 



loyal to the*- King, what a garment of righteousness would each man 



weave wherein to appear, amid the flood-light at the Court on high ! The 



caterpillar, at the sighing of the .autumnal wind, enfolds itself in its silken 



shroud, preparatory to a winged flight, leaving to the world the record of a 



life well spent — an unbroken thread of duty done : a treasury of silk to 



deck the sons of men 



" In courts, in feasts, and high solemnities.'' 



To grace man's outer life, and if in proper mood and contemplation, his 

 inner life as well ; for Nature's lessons are not learned under fheir external 

 forms, but under the spiritual beauty and verities they represent. 

 ' ' That not a natural flower can grow on earth 

 Without a flower upon the spiritual side, 

 Substantial, archetypal, all aglow 

 With blossoming causes — not so f,ir away 

 That we, whose spirit-sense is somewhat cleared, 

 May not catch something of the bloom and breath." 



Nature has many voices. She speaks to us in joyful song amid the 

 activities of the day, and in saddening dirges during the still hours of the 

 night, while throughout her wide domain, in song of life and dirge of 

 death, she whispers Resurrection. 



Among the multifarious forms of insect-architecture, all of which are 

 of absorbing interest, I purpose at this time to record a few notes relating 



