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the Stomach itself. The same remark will apply no 

 less forcibly to the herbivorous larva?, which might 

 chance to be swallowed in salad, &c. The cater- 

 pillar of the tabby moth (Jiglossa |)?7?o?;^"^jf,/^5^ 

 Latreille), which feeds on butter, the leather on 

 book-boards, &c, is said, on the authority of Lin- 

 naeus, to get sometimes into the stomach, and to 

 produce considerable disorder;* but this insect is 

 very common in houses, t and, from the rarity of 

 such accidents, we are led to doubt the evidence 

 usually brought forward. In this case we are 

 the more induced to question the authority of Lin- 

 naeus, from his having made an evident mistake in a 

 similar case respecting intestinal worms. 



Transformations of the tabby moth (Jg-Iossapi-iiandn Hs). «, the 

 catevi)illai- feeciing on butter ; b, c, d, feeding on leather under 

 galleries ; f, the moth with the down rubbed olf ;_/, the same 

 perfect. 



Linnaeus affirms, that in the presence of seven of 

 his companions he discovered, near Reuterholm, in 

 Dalecarlia, a tape worm in acidulous ochre {Ochram 

 acidularein,) at which he marvelled the more since 



* Linnaeus, quoted by Kirby and Spence, i, 13G. 

 t Latreille, liist. Gmrale, xiv, 'Z29. 



