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black as jet ; his forehead purple ; his feet and hinder 

 parts green : his tail two-forked and black ; the 

 whole body fttained with a kind of red spots, which 

 run along- the neck and shoulder-blade, not unlike the 

 form of S^ Andrew's cross, or the letter X made thus 

 crosswise, and a white line drawn down his back to 

 his tail ; all which add much beauty to his whole 

 body. And it is to me observable, that at a fixed age 

 this caterpillar gives over to eat, and towards winter 

 comes to be covered over with a strange shell or crust, 

 called an aurelia* ; and so lives a kind of dead life 

 without eating all the winter. And as others of 

 several kinds turn to be several kinds of flies and 

 vermin the spring following ; so this caterpillar then 

 turns to be a painted butterfly t-" 



Another caterpillar, called by collectors the lob- 

 ster (Stmiropus Fagi, Germar.), which is rarely 

 met with, has not only very long legs, a circum- 

 stance uncommon among caterpillars, but assumes 

 an attitude similar to the puss just figured, though 

 the shape of the creature renders it much more 

 strange. This caterpillar was known to MoufFet, 

 and is inditferently figured by him, as well as by 



Lobster-caterpillar (^Stauropus FiKji, Germab.) 



* See Insect Architecture, p. 194. 

 f Walton's Angler, chap, v. 



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