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132. 132. 



SEPTEMBER 21. Yeflerday evening, be- TENTHREDO 

 tween five and fix o'clock, faw a young cater- THETURNEF 

 pillar flip its flough. What flruck me molt, 

 was its head being of a filvery white ; except 

 its eyes (very fmall), which are black, as was 

 the body. Watched the head to fee it change 

 its colour. In about half an hour, it began 

 obvioufly to change to a lead-colour : at eight 

 o'clock (two hours and a half) it was become 

 quite dark : this morning it is entirely 

 black. 



SEPTEMBER 22. One of the caterpil- 

 lars (full feven-tenths of an inch long) ex- 

 cluded the firft of September (the only one 

 living) took ground to-day : exactly three 

 weeks from the firft exclufion (two hours and 

 & half in burrowing). 



It ftied its coat about the feventh, and an- 

 other time, laft Friday, the twentieth ; and 

 probably another intermediate time, about the 

 thirteenth : for thefe excluded the ninth fhcd 

 theirs about the fifteenth, and are now fhcd- 

 ding them a fecond time : four flipped yef. 

 terday ; three to-day : one of them I faw 

 Qip its Hough : the head white as above- 

 mentioned. 



