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Or on birds quite safely carried, 

 Nestling close among their feathers, 

 In theii" s^vift aerial journeys. 



V. 



TRIBES OF THE CLEAR WINGS. 



In describing all the orders 



Of these fourwinged, clearwinged insects, 



I must tell you of their larvae, 



Where they live and what they feed on. 



First, a tribe of caterpillars, 

 As of butterflies and night moths. 

 Living in the woods and hedges, 

 On the juicy green leaves feeding, 

 And resembling, too, the larvae 

 Of the butterflies and night moths 

 In the art of spinning cases, 

 Inside which they change to pupae. 

 When the sawfly, these are Sawflies, 

 When the sawfly once emerges 

 From one of these gluey cases, 



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