FRIGHT CAUSED BY INSECTS. 5 



spiders some people are ready to faint away, and 

 to see a little caterpillar creeping along with his 

 magnificent coat of parti-coloured hairs, and with 

 that funny gait which it is quite ludicrous to behold 

 as he binds himself into a loop and walks after a 

 fashion like no other earthly being, is enough to 

 make their hair stand on end and their flesh to creep ! 

 Sometimes insects are the innocent causes of 

 alarm even to nations. Thus there is a peculiar 

 kind of moth, upon the back of which there is 

 very distinctly marked the appearance of what is 



vulgarly called a "death's head," its name being 

 the death's-head hawk moth, represented in the 

 adjoining cut, which was once the cause of the 



