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(of which one furrounded the other), which 

 {land on each articulation between the fourth 

 on the back and the tail, are fhaded with green, 

 yellow, and blue, (the lowed is yellow) and 

 dotted with black. The tail is (harpened in 

 form of a horn, and confilts of many joints. 



The Croton febiferum was the food of an- 

 other kind of larva or grubs {Larva fenef- 

 trata .<*) ; which, the next night, changed into 

 aurclias. The larva were green, with many 

 rows of blue fpots. Of their change into 

 moths you will have an account the 3d of Fe- 

 bruary next year. On the road I found, be- 

 fides the Cojjlda cinerca, a Sivedijh infect, the 

 Coccinella feptem-punclata, which feems to have 

 been brought by chance from Europe as it were 

 in exchange for the Blatta orientalise 



The 1 4th September, 



The hoppo, happa, orfirft infpe£ror of the 

 cuftoms, (feep.216.) whofe bufmefs in particu- 

 lar it is to meafure the newly arrived European 

 {hips, came to us to-day. He fent his own Hairs, 

 covered with red cloth, before him, by which 

 he was to afcend into the fhip ; and afterwards 

 A a 4 came 



