I. 1 



criber) " two strange ph:rnomen;i 

 -T< i ii, and covered 



or r-lated over, il id exact eh- ^re- 



senting shell-work: tin- I: tliese animals 



wen :hat of a Lion, and upon the 



slightest touch, it darted out two spears behind, of 

 the line.st scarlet colour, and at the same time one 

 before, which was white, and shaped like the paw 

 of a bear: they had each of them fourteen legs, 

 and on each side the back of these wonderful 

 ( T< atures, was the representation of the animal 

 itself, in perfect white, which shone like silver." 



It is extremely easy to all who are conversant 

 in the history of insects, to guess what these for- 

 midable monsters must have been : viz. a brace of 

 harmless Caterpillars, of a species, singular indeed 

 in appearance, but by no means very uncommon, 

 and which do, by a slight aggravation, in some 

 degree justify the description of the observer. 



A few years ago, a description, (accomp;. 

 by a figure,) of one of the most common insects in 

 England, but in its first state, (in which it always 

 resides under water) was given, with much solem- 

 nity, in a periodical publication, (the Gen 

 Magazine) and was considered by its dcscribcr, 



