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accounts the caterpillar seems to favor the Pulse 

 family of plants, that is, plants with seeds in 

 a pod like peas and the beautiful wild blue lupin 

 (Fig. 122). 



It gnaws a hole in the pod (Fig. 120), creeps 



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in and hides itself and there, undisturbed by birds 

 or man, devours the gi'een seeds. So well con- 

 cealed is the caterpillar that the gi'eat authority on 

 insects, Dr. Harris, says : " The caterpillar is un- 



