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STRANGE DWELLINGS. 
Every one knows the peculiarly offensive caterpillars which 
eat the cabbages, and which are the offspring of the common 
large white butterfly. In the spring, the butterflies may be seen 
flitting about the gardens, settling on the cabbages for a few 
moments, and then flying off again. They look very pretty, 
harmless creatures, but, in fact, they are doing all the harm that 
lies in their power. Forty or fifty eggs are thus laid on a plant, 
PARASITIC INSECTS. 
COCOON OF OAK-EGGER MOTH. 
{Crypt us fumipennis . ) 
COCOON FROM NEW SOUTH WALES. 
(. Pimpla .) 
COCOON OF PUSS MOTH. 
(. Paniscus glaucopterus. ) 
COCOON OF GOAT MOTH. 
[Lamprosa setosa.) 
and if only one quarter of the number are hatched, they are 
quite capable of marring every leaf. In process of time, they 
burst from the egg-shell, and commence their business of eating, 
which is carried on without cessation throughout the whole 
time of the larval existence, with a few short intervals, while 
they change their skins. 
