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EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
Fig. I. The eggs laid by the female Moth, and covered by the 
down from its tail. 
2 . The eggs with the down removed. 
3. The young Caterpillars fufpending themfelves by a fingle 
web from their mouths. 
4. Shews the manner in which the young Caterpillars feed 
from the time they are hatched till winter, by eating the 
furface and flefhy part of the leaf, and leaving the mem¬ 
branous and veiny part. 
. The general bag or neft of one brood of Caterpillars as it 
appears in winter. 
6. Some of the Caterpillars as they- appear on their firft coming 
out in the fpring. 
f. A full-grown Caterpillar. 
8. The fame, having fpun a web, aiid about changing to Chrv- 
falis. 
9: The fame, changed to Chryfalis, and taken from the web. 
10. A male Moth, produced from the Chryfalis. 
11. A female of the fame fpecies. 
12. A dead Caterpillar of the fame fpecies, having been flung 
by an Ichneumon Fly. 
13. The web which the Caterpillar had fpun, as at fig. 8; 
opened to Ihew the little bags which the Ichneumon 
Caterpillar, proceeding from its body, had fpun to chry- 
falize in. 
14. The Ichneumon Fly of its natural fize, produced from a 
Chryfalis inclofed in one of the faid bags or cafes. 
1 5. ff'he fame magnified. 
