Insect artizans and their work . Plate 24 Strange Portable Houses. Page 182 Caterpillars of the Psyche-moths construct cases for their protection whilst upper examples, which have passed for snail-shells, are constructed wholly ofsilk ; the lower is of silk covered with vegetable debris. The moth is a male, thefemale being wingless and never leaving the case in which she fed as a caterpillar.

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