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in rag lumps or clots, so felted together that little flour remained in a 
loose state. From a mass of these clots, containing two or three cubic 

(a). Moth (imago) magnified. ` Moth (imago) aad magnified ; 
(b). Outline, showing natural size. sessile or quiesc 
inches, only a teaspoonful of flour could be obtained by repeated 
shakings. The mass was filled with live caterpillars, living and dead 
chrysalids, and remains of dead moths. Going on to describe the 
appearance of these enie he says : 
‘ The caterpillars varied in size from two- 
ighths up to five-eighths of an inch in 
Caterpillar (larva), natural size. peo and correspondingly in color, the 
younger ones being of flesh or pale red color, and the largest al- 
most white ; the shape cylindrical, somewhat slender, with sixteen 
feet,—that is, three pairs of claw-feet, four pairs of sucker feet, and a 
very well-developed pair besides beneath the tail, by the help of which, 
although the largest of the larva were sluggish, the younger traveled 
nimbly, and could move backwards or forwards at pleasure, or were 
able to attach themselves at once to a foreign substance, as the finger 
or hand. The head yellowish brown, darker in front, and with dark 
brown jaws ; a transverse patch on the segment next the head, this 
rather pale yellowish brown, with a faint pale central line dividing it 
from back to front, and (in the oldest specimen) a small brown spot 
on each side of the segment below the patch. Along the ‘back, except- 
ing towards the head and tail, were four small dark dots on each 
segment above, two on each side the centre. On the segments near 
the head the spots were arranged more transversely, and at the tail, 
immediately above the sucker-feet, was a brownish, oval or somewhat 
triangular patch (the anal plate). On the preceding segment one 
transverse row of spots varied somewhat in different specimens ; the 
largest was in the middle, with a smaller one on each side, occasion- 
ally one below, which would make five altogether ; but sometimes the 
lowest pair was absent, sometimes the middle large spot was not 
