68 OF THE LARVA STATE. 
The Rey. Mr Bree says, “ I once fed in confine- 
ment a caterpillar of the Large Egger Moth, 
(Lasiocampa Quercus of Stephens,) which, after 
having spun its cocoon, and changed to a pupa, in 
due time produced a host of small Ichneumons, with 
long ovipositors, somewhat resembling the Jchnew- 
mon manifestator in miniature.” * 
The early entomologists of this, as well as of 
other countries, were greatly puzzled to account for 
the generation of these minute parasites. Joannes 
Goedart, in allusion to the Microgaster glomoratus, 
and another species, speaks of them as being “ won- 
derful things, nay, scarcely credible or before heard 
of ;” and, in reference to the second, he says, “These 
things I have myself found by experience, and ob- 
served not without astonishment ; because it seems 
beside, nay, contrary to, the usual course of Nature, 
that, from one and the same animal, an offspring of a 
different species should be generated ; and that one 
and the same creature should procreate in three 
different ways, which yet is manifestly the case 
with these caterpillars, from what I have briefly re- 
lated.”+ Goedart alludes to the two species of Ich- 
neumonandthe Cabbage Butterfly, being all produced, 
as he supposed, from the pupee of these insects. 
* Loupon’s Magazine of Nat. Hist. v. p. 106. For an 
interesting account of these parasite insects, see Insect Trans- 
formations, p. 55, 58. 
+ Geopantur, Metamorphoses Exper. xl. +. 
