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hold the hind-wings horizontally, and the fore-wings 

 erect. Fig. 162 represents the white-spotted skipper, 

 Epargyreus Tityrus, Fabr. (under surface of the wing 



Fig. 162. 



shown on the left). The caterpillar (Fig. 163, one- 

 half natural size) lives in a house or nest (Fig. 164, 

 one-half natural size), which it makes by fastening 

 several leaves together with silk. If a leaf is given 

 the little caterpillar at birth, it will try to build its 



Fig- 163. Fig. 164. 



house as soon as it has eaten its egg-shell. The 

 chrysalis (Fig. 165, natural size) transforms in a 

 cocoon (Fig. 166, natural size) like the pupse of 



