HABITS. 



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through this channel, the larva be inundated and 

 inevitably drowned, if the rain lasted but a few 

 hours. I soon found that there were more brains 

 in the small head than I had supposed. The 

 larva began to move ; it spun some silk from one 



FIG. 95. Nest of caterpillar of Vanessa Atalanta, formed of a nettle-leaf; 

 nat. size. 



edge of the leaf to the other, and by adding many 

 fibres to make it strong, each new fibre shorter 

 than the preceding, the leaf was soon made to 

 curve more and more. I then began to under- 

 stand what this laborious work was for, and I 



