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the stomach itself. The same remark will apply no 

 less forcibly to the herbivorous larvae, which might 

 chance to be swallowed in salad, &c. The cater- 

 pillar of the tabby moth (Jlglossa pinguinalis, 

 LATREILLE), which feeds on butter, the leather on 

 book-boards, &c, is said, on the authority of Lin- 

 naeus, to get sometimes into the stomach, and to 

 produce considerable disorder;* but this insect is 

 very common in houses,")" and, from the rarity of 

 such accidents, we are led to doubt the evidence 

 usually brought forward. In this case we are 

 the more induced to question the authority of Lin- 

 naeus, from his having made an evident mistake in a 

 similar case respecting intestinal worms. 



Transformations of the tabby moth (A^lossapinguin':lis). a, the 

 caterpillar feeding on butter ; 6, c, d, feeding on leather under 

 galleriefe : e, the moth with the down rubbed off ; /, the same 

 perfect. 



Linnaeus affirms, that in the presence of seven of 

 his companions he discovered, near Reuterholm, in 

 Dalecarlia, a tape worm in acidulous ochre ( Ockram 

 at which he marvelled the more since 



* Linnaeus, quoted by Kirby and Spence, i, 136. 

 t Latreille, Hist. Geprrale, xiv, 229. 



