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autumn of 1828, in the environs of Phalsbourg, they were to be 
counted by millions. The extent of the woods laid waste was 
calculated at about fifteen hundred hectares. It is common in 
this country. 
Among the genus Liparzs, the species of which are also very 
destructive to trees, we must mention the Brown-tailed Moth 
(Liparis chrysorrhea, Fig. 236), a species by no means rare in 
England. The caterpillars live in quantities, on apple, pear, and 
elm trees, and destroy the plantations of the promenades of Paris. 
The females of this genus tear off the fur from the extremity of 
their abdomens to make a soft bed for 
their eggs, and to preserve them from 
the cold. And yet they are never to 
see their young, for they die after they 
have laid their eggs. Another tribe 
of Lombycina contains species of a 
Fig. 236.—Liparis chrysorrheea, small size, which are remarkable 
from the habits of caterpillars which make, with foreign bodies, 
cases, in the interior of which they live and undergo their meta- 
morphoses. 
The caterpillars of the genus Psyche, live in a case composed of 


Fig. 239.—Case of Psyche rubicolella. Fig. 240.—Case of Psyche graminella. 

Fig. 241.—Larva of Psyche graminella. Fig. 242,—Psyche graminella. 
fragments of leaves, of bits of grass and straw, of small sticks, 
