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our manufactures. But the caterpillars to which we 

 have alluded find it well adapted for their habita- 

 tions. 



The muff-looking tent in which we find these in- 

 sects does not require much trouble to construct; 

 for the caterpillar does not, like the clothes-moth 

 caterpillar, join the willow-cotton together, fibre by 

 fibre— it is contented with the state in which it 

 finds it on the seed. Into this it burrows, lines the 

 interior with a tapestry of silk, and then detaches the 

 whole from the branch where it was growing, and 

 carries it about with it as a protection while it is 

 feeding.* 



«, branch of the willow, with seeil spikoi covered with cotton. 



6. mulf-t.'nts muiie of this cotton by c, the caterpillar. 



* Reaumur, iii. p. 130. 



