3*8 MINUTES AUG.- 



122. being afcending, as I had thought, towards the 



TENTHREDO plant, its head and part of its body was bu- 



THETURNEP lied in the mould ; and, by the motion of the 



part in fight, I found that it was in the adl of 



burrowing. In about half an hour it had com- 



pleatly buried itfelf ; and had clofed up the 



mouth of the hole fo judicioufly, that no trace 



f it rerfiairied on the furface of the mould. 



Yeftcrday morning, eight o'clock,placed three 

 more blue caterpillars on the mould in the gar- 

 den-pot : they had remained in a fmall clofe- 

 ihutting tin-box until they were as wet as moi- 

 fture could make them, and feerhed to be al- 

 mofl in a ftate of diflblution ; fo that I was 

 afraid to touch them with the pliers. One of 

 them, however, the livelieft, immediately took 

 to the mould, and buried itfelf in Icfs than an 

 hour ; the other two appeared fickly , but at 

 twelve o'clock they had got a considerable way 

 Into the ground. About one, their tails were 

 only to be teen : before four o'clock in the 

 afternoon they had cortiplcatly buried them* 

 felves. 



AUGUST 28. Yefterday morning examining 

 the nature of the female instruments more atten-- 

 tively, I difcovered four hanger^like divffions \ 



nor 



