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eggs, not in a waxen cell, not on the leaf of a plant, 

 not in a silken bag constructed for the purpose, — 

 but actually in the body of a lining caterpillar. To 



Pimp/a manifestator dcpositiiit/ its eggs. 



insects of this tribe, Linnaeus gave the name of 

 Ichneumon, from the analogy between their sen'ices 

 and those of the ichneumons of Egj^t : the former 

 as the destroyer of insects, the latter as the de- 

 vourers of serpents, the eggs of crocodiles, &c. 

 When I mention that about three thousand species 

 of ichneumons are at present known and described, 

 it will be obvious that it would be impossible to en- 

 ter into many details respecting them. I shall 



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