GUIDE 



TO 



METHODS OF INSECT LIFE. 



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CHAPTER I. 

 EGGS, CATEEPILLAES, &c. 



Fig. 1. — Dot Moth (Mamestra persicarice), from life ; caterpillar 

 (after figure of Dr. Taschenberg's). 



The first step in the study of insect life is to con- 

 sider what an insect is; that is, what the special 

 j)oints are by which we may know whether what we 

 are looking at is an insect or not. 



We all know in a general way what an insect is : 

 we know that a Wasp or a Fly, a Beetle or a 13utterfly„ 



