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out of tlic box. And on the 25th of May I faw two more moths- 

 tome out of the llopper to tiie tube, leavizig their fhells or cafes 

 hanging to it. 



As many perfons are unacquainted with the figure of thefe moths, 

 I have caufed a drawing to be made of them, which is to be feen at 

 fig. 6, A A ; and alfo a drawing of the covering, lliell or cafe which 

 enclofes them while in their aureha (late,^^. 7, PO. Thcl'e figures 

 were drawn of the natural fize, and if I had not had ocular proof 

 of it, I could not have believed it pofTible for the moths to come out 

 of fo fmall a cafe or covering as is here pi6lured. * 



On the faine 25th of May, I went to the granary, where, the pre- 

 ceding autumn I had feen the maggots before mentioned creeping up 

 the walls, and there I law a number of moths, fome clinging to the 

 wall, and others flying about. I had brought with me fix glal's tubes, 

 and, as it was eafy to diftinguilh the males from the females, the 

 former being fmaller than the latter, I put in each of thefe glafl'es 

 fome of both fexes. 



At my return home, I did'efted three of tliefe females, and, by 

 the moll accurate reckoning I could make, I found in each of their 

 bodies upwards of fifty eggs. At another time, I judged that I took 

 out of another female moth, above feventy eggs. Thefe eggs were 

 exadlly the fliape of hens eggs, but no larger than fmall grains of 

 fand. The reft of the moths which I had brought from this granary 

 and kept alive, laid m.any eggs, and one of them produced to the 

 number of I'eventy. 



I next confidered, whether the moths, which thus propagate the 



* This obf.-rvation of the Author is corroborated, and, at the fame time, the a.prarance 

 can be accounted for, by a circumftanct which was fome years ago communicated to the 

 tranflator by a curious obferver of the change of aurelias into butterflies and moths, namely, 

 that immediately after their emerging from the fhell, or covering, which inclofes the n, they 

 increale in fize fo rapiJiy, particularly in tlic wings, that their giowth may be difcerned by 

 the eye. 



