306 MINUTES AUG. 



122. In copulating, fometimes the male, fome- 



TENTHREDO times the female invites. The male leaping 



THE TURXEP the female ; and curling his tail beneath her's ; 



they become united ; and, turning tail to tail, 



remain about a minute in the aft. 



After feparation, the female walks off with 

 fecming unconcern ; but the male remains {la- 

 tent for fome time. No fooner, however, has he 

 recovered himfelf, than he begins to drefs for 

 another amour, by cleaning and burnifhing his 

 body, and antennas, with his legs ; and, in 

 about five minutes, becomes engaged in an- 

 other embrace. 



The CATERPILLAR, when full-grown, is 

 about half an inch long, and one-tenth of an 

 inch in diameter near the head , the body be- 

 ing fomewhat fmaller : twenty legs, fix of 

 them long (probably anfwering to the legs of 

 the fly),and fourteen very fhort (perhaps, mere- 

 ly adapted to the caterpillar). The entire 

 animal of a jetty black; (except a whitifli line 

 on each fide, juft above the fctting on of its 

 legs) with many wrinkles, but without hair. 



Having arrived at fome certain period of 

 life, in fixes its hind parts to a turnep-leaf 

 or fome other fubftance, and, breaking k$ 

 outer coat near the head, crawls out; leaving 

 the flough fixed to the lca 



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