Note 6 — Chapter I · THE PINE PROCESSIONARY: THE EGGS AND THE HATCHING
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
In the centre of this crimson marquetry stand two clusters of very short bristles, gathered into flattened tufts which gleam in the sun like specks of gold. The length of the caterpillar is now about two centimetres6 and his width three or four millimetres.7 Such is the costume of middle age, which, like the earlier one, was unknown to Réaumur.