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hole in a leaf who made it? A jagged bole if so, it is 

 not the work of the Leaf-Cutter Bee. She would have left 

 her token behind in a nearly circular smooth -edged gap 

 at the edge, and infringing on the edge of the leaf, tell- 

 ing of a neat carpet laid down by the little housekeeper 

 in some well-stored home but this hole is jagged. 

 Is it the work of the Sawfly of the Slug of the 

 Caterpillar ? Our Entomologist will be able to tell 

 us. 



It has been said above that there is neither time nor 

 place in which we may not find the traces of these 

 creatures, if not the creatures themselves. If at one 

 time of the year we tear a handful of moss from the 

 trunk of a tree, out drop some little brown Chrysalids ; 

 if at another we drag a tuft of grass up by the roots, there 

 we find silken tubes, the homes of some small Cater- 

 pillars. We find them in fungi, we find them in grain, 

 we find them in teazle-heads, in fir-cones, in rose-buds, and 

 in fruit ; and the Hymenopterist, carefully watching the 

 insect emerging from a Gall, discovers that he has reared 

 in it a Moth ! On the face of a lichen-covered rock we 

 see a moving fragment, and lo ! a little Caterpillar, neatly 

 encased like a Caddis-worm in a tent of lichen, is moving 

 and feeding, safe even from the bird's sharp eye. We 

 open our drawers, and there, oh, sight of horror ! what 

 is that streak of white silk upon the best garment the 

 garment laid by, too good for common wear ? We look 

 farther, what is that dusky little roll ? Is it a " great 

 coat" on a microscopic scale? It matches our best 

 garment ominously. It moves a head peeps out 

 some little legs, and away it walks ! Tell not 

 the housekeeper ! away it walks in safety from 

 the admiring Entomologist, if eye or lens has revealed 



