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more. All eat till Sunday the twenty-fifth. One 1 22. 



left off about noon. Placed it on a piece of TENTHREDO 



OF 

 paper, and covered it up with a little dry 



mould ; it crawled out not apparently by de- 

 lign ; but it feemed to want more mould to 

 root in : covered it half an inch thick with 

 moifter mould, taken from the garden (the 

 weather moift) : it kept moving under the 

 mould for fome time, but in lefs than half an 

 hour the motion was not perceptible. 



This morning the mould ,ftill undifturbcd* 

 About four o'clock in the afternoon, fearched 

 for it among the mould with the point of a 

 needle, and found it (licking to the paper: blew 

 away the loofe mould, which now was become 

 dry, and faw the coat perfectly formed, and ad- 

 hering firmly to the paper. 



AUGUST 27. On Sunday afternoon, 25th of 

 Auguft, put three caterpillars to the live turncp 

 in the garden-pot; two black, one blue. One of 

 the black ones foon mounted the turncp, but 

 the other feemed neither to have fight nor in- 

 ftinft towards it. 



Perceiving the blue 6ne near the root of the 

 turncp, in an upright pofture, I apprehended 

 it was alfo going to feed; but on obfervino; it 

 more clofely, I found that, inftead of the head 



being 



