SARTOR mSECTORUM. 



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was on such honest and kindly terms with himself and 

 all his fellows that it had probably never seriously oc- 

 curred to him to think of himself as very much of a 

 sinner. He had therefore engaged his thoughts upon 

 another subject during our theological digression. "I 

 was a-wonderin' w'at sort uv varmin is them apple- 

 tree caterpillars. I allow they mought be tailor insects, 

 too ? 'Tall events they 's mighty peert at spinnin' and 

 leaf-curlin', and powerful destructive on the leaves. 

 I'd' like to know w'at you make out'n them." 



FIGS. 134 AND 135. — FEMALE AND MALE OF THE TENT- 

 CATEKPILLAR MOTH. 



"You are thinking of the tent-caterpillar," I an- 

 swered, "and an interesting fellow he is, although his 

 habits are certainly against him. We have two 

 common species closely resembling each other in form 

 and alike in habit. They are the apple-tree tent- 

 caterpillar {Clisiocampa Americana), and the forest 

 tent caterpillar {Clisiocampa sylvatica). The moth is a 

 dull reddish or reddish-brown color, and the female 

 measures about an inch and a half across the expanded 

 wings (Figs. 134 and 135). The hollow tongue or tube 

 by which moths imbibe their food is entirely wanting in 



