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HERMIT HOMES 



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or sufficiently to ensure that it does not fall care- 

 lessly to either side, but comes with precision into 

 the mouth and closes it. Perfect closure is rendered a 



FIG. 13. Part of the nest of Nemesia meridionals, showing the surface door open, 

 and the lower door pushed across so as to close the principal tube. The 

 subsidiary tube ends in a cnl-de-sac. 



matter of certainty by the aperture of the tube be- 

 ing slightly recurved to form a brim or lip, and 

 the interior surface of the lid is a little convex. 



