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Conspicuous in the foreground is the "Carpenter" Caterpillar of the great 

 Goat Moth (Cossws ligniperda), issuing from its woody cocoon in the hollow of 

 an oak. Various Moth Caterpillars of those called " Tent- makers" (Tineida:), 

 perambulate, under cover of their portable pavilions, the oak-leaf, just over the 

 " Carpenter's " cocoon. Above that, hangs another oak-leaf, cut and rolled by 

 some caterpillar in form of a barrel button. The hazel-leaf, higher and be- 

 yond, cut across its middle aud rolled spirally, in form of a pendant tassel, is 

 the work of a small caterpillar, which becomes a variegated, greenish Moth. 

 To the left, on a spray of elder, is a walking-branch caterpillar, of the Swallow- 

 tail Moth (Ourapterix sambucaria)^ suspened for transformation, in a cradle 

 composed of silk and pieces of leaf. On the other leaves of the same shrub, a 

 " Leaf-Miner" and a " Leaf- Roller," both Moth caterpillars, have exercised 

 their respective crafts ; a white serpentine track marks the presence of one, a 

 scroll with silken holdfasts that of the other. On the top of the wall, and 

 composed of grains thence detached, are two little pyramids, built and occu- 

 pied by tiny caterpillars called " Stonemasons," from the material thus 

 employed. 



