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ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Nest3 of oak-leaf-rolling caterpillars . . . • 

 Nests of tile nettlf-ieaf-rolling caterpillars 

 Leaf-rolling caterpillars of the sorrel .... 

 Nests of the liesperia malva, wit!) caterpillar, chrysalis, &c. 

 Nest of wiilow-leaf-roller 



Ziczac catt 



lar and nest 



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Cypn^sss.pnrge caterpillars . 



Cocoon of ditto on a branch .... 



Small caterpillar and tno*s cell of the same 

 Leaf np^t of the caddis-wonn .... 



Reed nest of ditto ....•• 



Aq'.iatic npst of ditto ...... 



Shell nest of ditto, five figures .... 



Stone (test of ditto ....... 



Sand nest of ditto, balanced with a stone 



Nest of ditto, balanced with straws .... 



Caterpillar of goat-moth in a willow tree 



Winter nest of the goat-caterpillar 



Nest of goat-moth, raised to shew the pupa 



Eggs of the puss-moth 



Rudiments of the cell of the puss-moth 

 Cell built by the larva of the pussmoth 

 Ichneumon ........ to. 



Magnified cells of Pyralis strigulalis .... 198 



Nests of earth mason caterpillars, two figures . . 201 



Earth-mason caterpillars' nests, caterpillar and motii • 202 

 Earth-mav-oii caterpillars' nests, moth, &c. seven figures . 205 

 Nests of tlie grubs of ephemera, two figures . . 206 



Grub of ephemera .....,' ib. 



Nests of epiiemera in holes of cossus .... 207 



Grub of the ant-lion, raainifit'd ..... 211 



Trap of the ant-lion in different stages, two figures . ib. 



Ant-lions' pitfalls in an expeiimentiiig box . . . 212 

 Cases, A:c. of the clothes-moth, and perfect moths . 221 



Caterpillar's it'nt upon the leaf of an elm . . . 224 



Tents of the caleipillar ill different stages . . . 2'26 



Tents -(111(1 caterpillars, natural size, and magnified . . 228 



Branch of the willow with seed spikes . . . 232 



Muff tents made of the above cotton .... ib. 



Muff makiiig caterpillar ib. 



Leaf of the monthly rose mined by caterpillars . . 234 



Leaf of the dew-berry bramble mined . . . 23d 



Leaf of the piimrose mined ..... 237 



Capricorn beetle rounding off tl'.e bark of a tree . . 2^0 

 Mole cricket, with outline of one of its hands . . 243 



Nest of the mole-cricket . . . . . . 244 



Acrida verriicivora depositing her eggs .... 246 



Artifit-ial hive for observing the mason-ants . . 269 



Vertical section of mason-iint's nest .... 270 



Contrivance of mason-ants to strengthen the building of 



their nest 271 



Artificial hive for the wood-ant ..... 276 



Portion of a tree, with chambers, &c., chiselled out by jet-ants 281 



Warrior-ant in the winged state 291 



^Vltite ant queen distended with eggs . . . • 295 



