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132. broken, with only the fkin of the animal 

 TENTHREDO remaining , not entire, but divided longitudi- 

 THETURNEP ii ally ; one of the divifions, or fides, being 

 very entire, the other broken. Query Has 

 the fly efcaped from this unnoticed (for during 

 the firfl two or three weeks the box was fre- 

 quently left open to receive the rays of the 

 fun ); or has fome other animal entered the coat, 

 and devoured the entrails of the caterpillar? 

 Loofening another, I find it very perfect, 

 containing a plump, fleek, healthy-looking 

 chryfalis. Separating a third, it proves a fine 

 large coat, curioufly lined on the infide, with 

 a fmooth filvery lamina ; but without any re- 

 mains whatever of the animal, which has ob- 

 vioufly efcaped through a perforation at one 

 end of the coat. Query Did it cfcape in the 

 caterpillar or the fly Hate ? I am of opinion 

 it made itsefcape prefently after it had formed 

 its coat, and was that which I found under the 

 turnep-leaf (fee backj; for there were only 

 fix caterpillars put into the box, and there have 

 been fix coats formed : it is, therefore, pro- 

 bable, that each formed its refpe&ive coat, 

 and that two of them made their efcape. The 

 other coat, feemingly perfect, and, I appre- 

 hend, containing a chyyfalis, ftili remains fixed 

 to the bottom. 



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