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world. I have found several such maggots in a 

 single cocoon. In raising caterpillars, one is al- 

 most sure to have some from whose bodies will 

 come maggots. Give such fly-worms a bit of earth, 

 and in an incredibly short time they will trans- 

 form to brown pupse. 



Other inhabitants of the cocoons are f the Der- 

 mestidce, or Skin-beetles, and their children. Go- 

 ing up that hill one day early in September, when 

 all the world was in dust, and when the evil-smell- 

 ing daisies were almost the only flowers in bloom, 

 I saw a cocoon on the fence. Poking into the 

 cocoon I found a perfect beetle and five brown 

 and white larva of the Dermestidce. The larvae 

 wore trailing hairs, like a lady's train, 

 behind them, and had a bunch of hair on 

 each side of each segment. 



As for their mother (for I have no 

 doubt she stood in that relation to them), 

 her brown back was marked with white, 

 and she was a deceitful person to have 

 the training of any children ; for if she 

 was disturbed, down she tumbled on her 

 estidce, back and pretended to be dead. The 

 enlarged. infants did not seem to care how many 

 times she died. Probably they were used to her 

 deaths. 



After keeping them a time I thought that the 

 infants were also dead. They lay motionless in 

 the bottom of the bottle, and bitterly did I accuse 



