INSECTS AT WORK AND PLAY. 



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but also in shape. Those of the angle-shades 

 moth during diurnal repose are so folded as to 

 render their owner easily mistaken for a small 

 grub-eaten ; curled-up, dead leaf. The specimen 

 figured in our illustration was difficult to detect 



ANGLE-SHADES MOTH ON GRASS STEMS. 



when at rest amongst the leaf-strewn autumn 

 grass, and much more so when it reclined amongst 

 the dead leaves of beech twig. 



I have frequently mistaken the small moth 

 figured in our illustration on the next page for a 

 sparrow's droppings in my garden. 



