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pear-shaped cocoon hanging in grass or bushes. 

 Fig, 62. A stem of loose brown silk is first 

 made, and under this the eggs attached (at any 

 rate this had been done in one which had been 



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abandoned imfinished) : then a cup-shaped 

 piece is made imder the eggs; the bunch of 

 loose silk is spun OA-er all, and finally the paper- 

 like shell. 



ESCAPE FROM THE COCOON. 



These cocoons of Ar^efie are made late in 

 the summer, and the young stay in them tlD 

 the next season. Out of six hundred cocoons 



