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the stomach itself. The same remark will apply no 

 less forcibly to the herbivorous larvte, which might 

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

 pillar of the tabby moth {Jiglossa pingvinctUs, 

 Latreille), which feeds on btitter, the leather on 

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

 n£BUS, to get sometimes into the stoma h, and to 

 produce considerable disorder;* but this insect is 

 very common in houses,t 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. 



Ti-an«forniations of llir ttilihy iiiolh C.lr/,,!!:.ii/)hia->n'n Hs). «, the 

 calei'iiillar feeiling on l)ult( r ; /j, r, H, feedinfr on leatlit-r iiniier 

 gall-'i-ies ; f, llie raoth with the down rubbed off;/, the sume 

 perfect. 



Linn;eus affirms, that in the presence of seven of 

 his companions he discovered, near Reuterholm, in 

 Dalccarlia, a tape worm in acidulous ochre (Ocliram 

 acidularcm,) at which he marvelled the more since 



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

 t Latreille, Hist. Gi.n rale, xiv, -'i9. 



