THE TUSSEH SILKWORM MOTH. 119 
branches on the Asseen tree in proportion to the 
size thereof, but they put none on the Byer tree. 
The Parieahs, or hill people, guard the inseets night 
and day while in the worm state, to preserve them 
from crows and other birds by day, and from bats 
by night. 
LEAF OF THE JUJUBF OR BYER TREE. 
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“I myself have seen them thus watching the 
brood. This species cannot be confined, for so soon 
as the moth pierces the cocoon it gets away ; and the 
people add, that it is impossible to keep it by any 
precaution whatever, 
