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the stomach itself. The same remark will apply no 

 less forcibly to the herbivorous larvae, which might 

 chance to be swallowed in salad, &c. The caterpillar 

 of the tabby-moth (yl^/o^^a pinguinalis^ Latreille), 

 which feeds on butter, the leather on book-boards, 

 &c., is said, on the authority of Linnseus, to get 

 sometimes into the stomach, and to produce con- 

 siderable 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 for- 

 ward. In this case we are the more induced to 

 question the authority of Linnaeus, from his having 

 made an evident mistake in a similar case respecting 

 intestinal worms. 



Transformations of the tabby-moth (Aglossa pingmnalix'). a, the 

 caterpillar feeding? on butter ; b, c, d, feeding on leather under <,'al- 

 lenes ; e, the muth with the down rubbed oft" ; /, the same perlect. 



Linnaeus afiSrms, that in the presence of seven of 

 his companions he discovered, near Reuterholm, in 

 Dalecarlia, a tape- worm in acidulous ochre (jOchram 

 acidularem), at which he marvelled the more since 



"■ Linnaeus, quoted by Kirby and Spence, i. 136. 

 t L;itreille, Hist. Gcnerale, xiv. 229. 



