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ground being left unftirred, the chryfalifes 122. 



met with no interruption, but were left to the TENTHREDO 

 bent of their nature. THE 



Wiftiing to trace this infect from the" egg 

 to the caterpillar flate, I this morning took up 

 a fmall turnep-plant with a ball of earth to it, 

 and put it into a garden-por, fet on a faucet of 

 water. Having a number of the flies in the re- 

 ceiver of an air-pump (fomewhat bell-fhaped, 

 about eight inches high and feven in diameter) 

 I put this over the plant with the flies (licking 

 to it: they prefently quitted the infide of the 

 glafs, on which they were refling, for the plant; 

 and the fun being warm, they feemed much de 

 lighted with their fituation, 



I looked with impatience to fee the females 

 begin to depoiit their eggs, but could only 

 perceive one which feemed any way inclined to 

 the operation, and this did not go deliberately 

 to the edge of the leaf and unfhcath her in- 

 flrumcnt in the manner I had before obferved. 



AUGUST 22. On Thurfday the i5thinflanr, 

 I put fix blue caterpillars (bedewed with moi- 

 flure exuding from their bodies) intoabox, and 

 (by way of drying them and placing them in a 

 flate fomewhat refembling their flate in nature) 

 put fame common garden-mould to them ; 

 X 3 covering 



