INSECT ENEMIES. 



107. 



pulp of the leaf, leaving a pretty network of veins ; but 

 in a few days they devour the whole leaf, and when full 

 grown sweep every thing before them. Side by side in 

 solid phalanx along the twigs and branches, they feed 



Fig. 82. BEFORE THE FIRST 

 MOULT. 



Fig. 83. BEFORE THE SECOND 

 MOULT. 



Fig. 85. BEFORE THE FOURTH MOULT. 



Fig. 84. BEFORE THE THIRD 



Fig. 86. AFTER THE FOURTH MOULT. 



gregariously, resting between meals in the same order, 

 with both head and tail recurved over the body. If 

 touched or otherwise disturbed they at once throw their 

 heads from side to side in a spiteful manner, or let them- 

 selves down by a silken thread, always double, which 

 they rapidly spin out of their mouths. Their bodies are 



Fig. 88. CHRYSALIS. 



Fig. 87. LARVA AT REST. 



well covered with long, soft, whitish hairs. They moult 

 four times, and attain their full growth in five or six 

 weeks, and are then about two inches long. A black 

 stripe extends along the back, and three black stripes 



