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part of it. The materials of which it is composed 
are rather coarse in comparison to the workman- 
ship of the generality of insects. Some parts of 
the hammock is woven very thick and strong, 
apparently so as to resist a good deal of wet. 
This Caterpillar is inclined to a black, spotted 
with ten round deep black spots on each side, 
and in size I may say not more than half the 
bulk of the well-known Caterpillar so inju- 
rious to the foliage of the berry bush ; it is very 
active, and very soon alarmed at the approach of 
any thing. About the beginning of July, each 
individual incloses itself in a cone or covering of 
white silky materials, very close and strongly 
worked, of an oval, or rather approaching to a 
cylindrical form, and the whole ai’e enveloped in 
one mass by their webs, similar to those of 
spiders, as before described. It remains in this, or 
clu-ysalis state, about three weeks, when a beauti- 
ful little moth is produced, I believe small 
ermine moth (Phalcena padella). All the four 
wings are of a blue white ; the top ones are 
spotted over indiscriminately with several very 
small round black dots ; the lower ends of the 
four wings are bordered with a fine fringy border. 
I have been long undecided as to when the parent 
deposits her eggs, and when the lai’vae are brought 
into existence ; but have at last been satisfied from 
the following observations : In the year 1827, 
29th July, I found the parent coating her eggs 
over, which she appeared just to have been 
