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COCOONS, BUT NOT OF SILK. 
when it is about to become a chrysalis, it retires 
to its inner chamber, and weaves a thick curtain 
across the opening, to shut itself completely in. 
Long before it changes to a moth, the mass round 
the outside of the stem, that it has taken so 
much trouble to form, falls away. And this is 
all the better, as the disguise is not wanted any 
more, and it might prove a barrier to the outlet 
of the moth. 
Do you remember the curious stinging cater¬ 
pillar, with four knobs on the front, and four on 
the hinder part of its body? It, too, lives in New 
Cocoon like a fruit 
