352 MINUTES SEPT. 



132. . SEPEMBER 28. Thofe excluded the ninth 

 TENTHREDO began to ftied their laft coat laft night (five 



OF 



THE TURNER ftiedj, which is only nineteen days from 

 their exclufion. But they have been Ihut up 

 in a warm box, and regularly fed. 



Thefe, I am pofitive, have med their coats 

 three times, at about fix days diftance. 



Put them upon a pot of mould : they 

 would not take it, nor would they eat ; but 

 feemed defirous of being releafed from their 

 confinement. I therefore gave them their 

 liberty. They were remarkably active ; crawl- 

 ing much fafter now than at any preceding pe- 

 riod of the caterpillar-ftate. . Hitherto their 

 bufiriefs of life has been eating-, now, they 

 are in a buftle to provide themfelves conve- 

 hient lodging-places. 



OCTOBER 16. To try whether rain, or 

 other water, coming in contact with the chry- 

 faline coat, injures the animal or, whether 

 the coat is water-proof; I fuffered a caterpillar 

 to burrow in a garden-pot, and let it re- 

 main about thirty. fix hours undiflurbed. I 

 then watered the furface plentifully, alrnoft" 

 covering it with a meet of water, and put a 

 quantity into the faucer oa which it Hood. This 



I have 



