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serves for its girth will not adhere finnly to stone, iir brick, 

 or even wood, in such situations, therclbrc, it previously 

 covers the sjjace of about an inch long, and half an incli 

 wide, with a web of silk, to the extensive base of which its 

 (^rtli can be securely fivstencd. This insect disposes its eggs 

 side by side, so as to resemble a close column of soldiers ; 

 in consequence of which, on hatching, those larvrc which 

 proceed from the upper end, cannot disturb the adjoining 

 eggs.* 



That accurate observer of nature, accomplished sch(dar, 

 and highly i)leasing poet, the late Rev. Dr. Ilurdis, has thus 

 minutely described the birtli and habits of the Caterpillar. 



" Hatch'd by the sun-beam from contiguous cells. 



Around the slender apple-twig combiu'd 



In circuit orderly, egg glued to egg. 



Issue the CiUrrpiUar swann minute. 



There left, oviparous, her half-bom brood, 



Kre summer clos'd, the parent left and died. 



There have they still endur'd, and still surviv'd 



Sharj) winter's tyranny ; the bitter frost, 



That slew the myrtle, and the la.sting leaf 



Of the screen 'd laurel chang'd, no death to them. 



Now busily convened, upon the bud, 

 That cr(»vns tlieir genial branch, they fea.st snl)lime, 

 And spieud their nnislin canopy around, 

 I'avillion'd richer than the proudest king. " 



lAViniirii VILLAOK. 



The Caterpillar, whose life is one continued succession of 

 changes, umy be regarded as a locomotive egg, having l()r 

 its embryo the included Uutterfly : it often moults its skin 

 before it attains its ftill growth ; and it is not simply the skin 

 that is changed, for when it moults, in the ejiivice are found 



* Intiodiictioii to Kuluinology, vol. iii. p. 79, 80. 



