MOULTING OF CATERPILLARS. 



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removed a short time before it would be naturally cast, 

 these tufts may be seen in a moist state very similar to 

 small wetted camePs-hair pencils lying close to the in- 



MoiiUing of caterpillars, a «, caterpillar magnified ; bb, the same 

 %vhen It has just cast its t=kin, the hairs still moist; c, the same, natu- 

 ral size; ddefg, tufts of its hairs magnified ; A, leg and foot magni- 

 fied ; t, the caterpillar wedging through the old skin ; k k, hairy cater- 

 pillar of the sycamore. 

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