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its new suit, and the camera has faithfully reproduced what we saw 

 (Fig. 61). 



During the forenoon of May 31st, we found one caterpillar that 

 was still in its spring suit or case. It was transferred to a fresh 

 leaf, where it at once traveled to a point on the underside a short 

 distance from the edge. There work was begun by first eating a 

 small round hole through the skin of the leaf ; it then began feeding 

 upon the inner tissues between the two skins of the leaf. By 

 nightfall it had thus eaten out the tissue over a narrow elongate 

 area reaching to the edge of the leaf. The little tailor must have 

 continued its work nearly all night, for at eight the next morning 

 what we saw is represented, considerably enlarged in figure 61 ; the 



♦il.— The little tailor at work making its summer cigar-shaped suit ; much enlarged, 

 except the leaf in the corner, which is natural size. 



leaf in the lower right hand corner is natural size. The caterpillar 

 had mined out the inner tissue over the narrow area, for the 

 purpose of using the two skins of the leaf remaining above and 

 below the mined area, as the cloth out of which to make its new 

 suit. As the figure shows, the little tailor had then adroitly cut out 

 his suit by cutting through both skins along the sides of the mine^ 

 leaving a few strands uncut to act as guy ropes to hold the skins in 

 position while they were being neatly joined together by the silken 

 threads spun by the caterpillar inside. The stocking-shaped object 

 shown on the leaf in the figure is the caterpillar's discarded spring 



