GOAT MOTH. 



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the scent that issues from the burrows, and 

 some of the cocoons spun "by the larva still 

 retain their peculiar odour, though five or six 

 years have elapsed since I took them from the 

 tree. 



The span of wings is rather more than three 

 inches. The fore-wings are greyish hrown, 

 clouded with white, and marked with nume- 



