DIALOGUE V. 
LARVJE, THEIR GENERAL HABITS, AND 
MODES OF ESCAPE. CATERPILLAR OF 
THE OAK. 
LUCY, I hope, mamma, you have 
leisure to tell me a great deal about 
caterpillars, to-day. I have been re- 
flecting on what you told me yesterday, 
and it is so entertaining that it makes 
me quite anxious to hear more. 
Mother, I am glad to be able to 
amuse and instruct you at the same 
time. We ended with the species that 
live under the bark of trees. Other kinds 
live in rotten wood. 
Lucy, What can they find there to 
Dourish them ? 
Mother, It has not, I believe, been 
