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in granaries, and it unites several seeds together with a pure white 
silk, and lives in the midst as in acase. Its house, however, it 
devours. 
Alucita porectella is found in gardens, and its beautiful net- 
worked cocoon is hidden within curled-up leaves or underneath 
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Tinea tapetzella. 
A rug attacked by the caterpillars. Cases suspended on the beam before the meta- 
morphosis into the chrysalis state. The moth, the size of life. A caterpillar out 
of its case and magnified. Caterpillars and their cases magnified. 
them, but the Brazilian species spin most elaborate, perfect, and 
regular network cocoons, of violet or red-coloured silk, which 
makes them very distinct and visible. 
There are some species of Z¢xezd@ which represent the habits 
of the larve of the Psyches amongst the Lombycide, and they are 
called the Coleophora. The moths hide themselves in trees during the 
day-time, and are nocturnal in their habits. They appear in July, 
and the eggs being laid and the caterpillars hatched, these last 
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