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Puss Moth. — {Dicranura -vinula.) As each Summer 

 draws near excitement prevails among my boy (and girl) 

 friends at the prospect of securing eggs, or larvae, of this 

 most interesting species (Fig. 14). Its predecessors in 

 scientific order are the Kittens, but it is only a coincidence 



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that these should be followed by the Puss when, as a 

 matter of fact, it should rather be the reverse ! How- 

 ever that may be, the latter is undoubtedly a popular 

 favourite among those young people who rear these 

 creatures, and to whom the curious form of the Puss 

 Moth larva, and the cocoon it weaves, make a special 



appeal. It is of wide distribution, and wherever poplars 



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