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on each ; each of the three anterior segments is 

 furnished with a pair of legs ; there are also two 

 small fleshy tubercles on each of the 6th, 7 th, 8th 

 and 9th segments, as well as a pair of feet at the 

 extremity of the body. This description was made 

 when the larvae had for some time quitted the fruit. 

 In its early state, it is of a dirty reddish or flesh co- 

 lour. After quitting the fruit, the larvae crept to the 

 top of the box in which it was confined, and spun for 

 itself a thin but close web, of a darkish-coloured silk 

 (c), in which it remained all the winter, and for 

 several of the early months of the following year, 

 without assuming the chrysalis state. The caterpillar 

 wanders about on the ground till it finds the stem of 

 a tree, up which it climbs, and hides itself in some 

 little crack of the bark. The fall of the apple, the 

 exit of the grub, and its wandering to this place of 

 safety, usually take place in the night-time. In this 

 situation it remains without stirring for a day or two, 

 as if to rest itself after the uncommon fatigue of a two 

 yards' march ; it then gnaws away the bark a little, 

 in order to get in further, out of the way of observa- 

 tion, and having made a smooth chamber, big enough 

 for its wants, it spins a beautiful little milk-white 

 silken case, in which, after a few weeks, it becomes a 

 chrysalis ; and in this state it remains through the 

 winter, and until the following June, when it is upon 



