CHAPTER V. 



OF THE CATERPILLAR, AND OTHER KINDS OF LARV^l 

 — OP THE DERIVATION OP THEIR POPULAR AND 

 SCIENTIFIC NAMES — AND OF THEIR STRUCTURE, 

 HABITS, INSTINCTS, DEVASTATIONS, ETC. 



(HE Caterpillars of Butterflies and Moths, 

 even of the most common species, are 

 _r$ often so conspicuous and heautiful that 

 ^ they cannot fail to have been observed 

 and admired even in the earliest times, 

 would be very interesting to know by 

 what names they were distinguished in 

 some of the primitive dialects of our race ; 

 for in the early languages the names of natural 

 objects were almost always exceedingly expressive of 

 the nature of the object itself. Such early traces of 

 popular entomological nomenclature are, however, 

 lost to us; but the Greek and Roman names of 

 the Caterpillar, Volvex and Ka^?™ (Kampe), are 

 still known, and both appear to be descriptive of its 

 kind of action when in motion, from the peculiar 



