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unfortunately very little is known concerning their metamorphosis. 
The honeysuckle is devoured by two sets of Lithocolletis caterpillars 
every year, in the spring-time and at the end of summer. A 
small moth with yellowish brown wings, ornamented with white 
bands and spots, and bordered with a fine and long silky fringe, 
A BRANCH OF HONEYSUCKLE, THE LEAVES OF WHICH ARE OCCUPIED BY THE 
MINING CATERPILLARS OF Lithocolletis. 
L ithocolletis emberizcepen nella. 
a. Moth natural size. b. Moth magnified, c. A caterpillar magnified. 
may be seen upon the hedges where the wild honeysuckles 
grow. About those times of the year the caterpillar of this 
pretty moth mines the leaves of the honeysuckle from their 
lower surface, and eats the cellular structures. The leaf very 
soon begins to twist irregularly, and if it is straightened the 
skin of it breaks, and the little pale, greenish, semi-transparent 
caterpillar comes out or recedes, showing great agitation. It is 
blanched, like many other animals that pass their lives out of 
