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The Life of the Caterpillar,
by J. Henri Fabre, 1916




The Life of the Caterpillar

by J. Henri Fabre

translated by
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
Fellow of the Zoological Society of London

The Modern Library of the World's Best Books
Copyright, 1916, by DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, INC.

Introduction [not reproduced here] copyrighted, 1925, by BONI & LIVERIGHT, INC.

Printed in the United States of America

CONTENTS

  1. I. THE PINE PROCESSIONARY: LAYING THE EGGS 9
  2. II. THE PINE PROCESSIONARY: THE NEST; THE COMMUNITY 27
  3. III. THE PINE PROCESSIONARY: THE PROCESSION 56
  4. IV. THE PINE PROCESSIONARY: METEOROLOGY 90
  5. V. THE PINE PROCESSIONARY: THE MOTH 111
  6. VI. THE PINE PROCESSIONARY: THE STINGING POWER 128
  7. VII. THE ARBUTUS CATERPILLAR 150
  8. VIII. AN INSECT VIRUS 161
  9. IX. THE PSYCHES: THE LAYING 186
  10. X. THE PSYCHES: THE CASES 217
  11. XI. THE GREAT PEACOCK 246
  12. XII. THE BANDED MONK 279
  13. XIII. THE SENSE OF SMELL 300
  14. XIV. THE CABBAGE-CATERPILLAR 331
  15. INDEX. [not reproduced here] 373

[For this HTML edition we have retained the British spelling of the translation, except we have changed the following: "hugh" to "huge," and "sovran" to "sovereign."]

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