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especially the fingers, are very long and slender, to support the 
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g ig. 4. Foreleg or ca of Seal; the bones are in great con- 
trast with the last, but the same parts are represented. 
Fig. sindap which has no thumb. 
Fig. 6. Hand of the Gorilla; the thumb smaller than in man. 
Fig. 7. Leg of Man. 
Fig. Hind leg of Tapir. 
Fig. 9. Hind leg of Alligator 
In these three nam it is mit to trace the corresponding bones, 
as in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 
Fig. 10. Foot of Gorilas the great toe very large, and standing off 
from the others like 
By comparing ote ‘ 2, and 4, with Figs. 7, 8, and 9, one can 
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so that the three figures on one side are, to those on the o 
ight arms to peri left arms; they are symmetrical. 
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THE CLOTHES-MOTH. 
BY A. S. PACKARD, JÈ., M. D. 
For over a fortnight we once enjoyed the company of 
the caterpillar of a common Clothes-moth. It is a little 
pale, delicate worm (Fig. Fig-3. Fis.2. Fig. 1. 
1), about the size of a « 
darning needle, not half an 
inch long, with a pale horn- 
colored head, the ring next 
the head being of the same 
color, and has sixteen feet, 
the first six of them well developed and constantly in use 
to draw the slender body in and out of its case. Its head 
is armed with a formidable pair of jaws, with which, like 
a scythe, it mows its way through thick and thin. 
