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gummy secretion alone. With this it contrived 

 to form a cocoon partly attached to the glass and 

 partly to the stone on which it rested, and so 

 hard was the cocoon, which was nearly as trans- 

 parent as the tumbler itself, that the glass was 

 fixed tightly down, and could not be removed 

 without much difficulty. 



Seeing how hard is the cocoon, it is a matter 

 of wonder that the moth should ever be able to 

 force its w^ay through the walls. This, however, 

 it does in a mode which has not been satisfac- 

 torily explained, and contrives to creep through 

 a hole which scarcely seems capable of permit- 

 ting the passage of an insect half the size of the 

 Puss Moth. These remarkable cocoons may be 

 found upon the trunlis of willo:v-trees, seldom 

 less than two feet from the ground or more than 

 four. The Moth appears towards the end of 

 spring and beginning of summer. 



Another Moth of this genus is the Sallow 

 Kitten {Dicranvra furcula), a figure of which i? 

 seen on Plate VII. fig. 2. This Moth is called 

 the Kitten, because it is so much smaller than 

 the Puss. As its popular name implies, it feeds 

 upon the various sallow when in the larval state. 

 The caterpillar is much like that of the Puss 

 Moth, but very much smaller and rather diffei - 



