88 ON THE HABITATIONS AND 



would be destroyed, our little philosopher carefully 

 avoids gnawing a hole in the leaf, contenting itself 

 with the pasturage afforded by the parenchymaabove 

 the lower epidermis ; and, when the produce of this 

 area is consumed, it gnaws asunder the cords of its 

 tent, and pitches it at a short distance as before."* 



When the animal attains its full growth, it assumes 

 the pupa state ; and, after its appointed period of 

 confinement, bursts its casement, and issues forth a 

 small brown moth, with long legs, the Phalmia 

 Tinea Serratilla of Linnc.t 



Sir James Smith, late president of the Linnoean 

 Society, had in his cabinet the case of a lepidopterous 

 larva, which was composed of the spines of some 

 species of Mimosa; these were ranged side by side, 

 so as to form a very elegant fluted cylinder. The 

 male caterpillars intermix with the pieces of twigs, 

 which are less closely and regularly arranged, bits 

 of dried leaves, and other light materials. The 

 larva of the Bombi/x veatita forms a similar habita- 

 tion of pieces of small twigs ; and the Tinea viciella 

 covers itself with short pieces of the stems of grasses, 

 placed transversely, and united by means of silken 

 filaments into a pentagonal or hexagonal case. 

 Reaumur describes the domicile of a caterpillar of 

 the same family, which is composed of square pieces 



* KiRBY and Spence's Introductien, 1. 457. 

 •t" Andehson's Recreations, ii. 409. 



