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upon the leaves without eating them, rears its 

 head as if in search of something, or crawls to the 

 edges of the tray and moves slowly along; its 

 rings draw in, and its greenish colour changes 

 to a deep golden hue ; its skin becomes wrinkled 

 about the neck, and its body feels like soft dough, 

 and on taking it in the hand, and looking through 



FULL GROWN SILKWORM. 



it, the whole body has assumed the transparency 

 of a ripe yellow plum. When this is observed, 

 the owner of the insects puts each singly into a 

 little cone of white paper, which he pins to the 

 wall or elsewhere, so that the creature may be 

 undisturbed at its work. But in the nurseries 

 abroad little bushes are set up on the wicker 



