90 ON THE HABITATIONS AND 



their tents are shown in the following figure. Those 

 adhering to the stone at No. 1 , are the size of nature, 

 and No. 2, is a magnified representation. 



Various caterpillars, which produce their habita- 

 tion from pure silk, are not satisfied with a single 

 coating of it, but spin for themselves an upper gar- 

 ment, resembling a cloak, open at one side, which 

 Reaumur appropriately terms " Teir/nes (i fozo-reav 

 a manteau."* A remarkable peculiarity of these 

 coverings is, that instead of being fabricated of a 

 fiiTO and close texture, they are composed of imbri- 

 cated, transparent scales, like those of a fish. 



The dwellings of the larva; above described might, 

 with more propriety, be rather termed clothing than 

 houses, as they fit the animal like a vestment. This 

 is more especially the case with some of the Tineas, 

 (or Clothes Moths,) which cover themselves with a 

 coat of the very same materials as mankind, of wool 

 or hair curiously interwoven together. Dr Paley 

 asserts, that " the human animal is the only one 

 which is naked, and the only one which can clothe 

 itself't These little creatures, like man,a'' e born 



* Reaumur, iii. 206. 



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