3 M I N U T E S OCT. 



jo 2 . Being willing to facrificc another to my 



curiofity, I have fearched for and found an- 

 other coat; but only one-half of the floughof 

 the caterpillar remains; divided longitudinally 

 as before. 



The garden-pot now contains one bur- 

 rowed on Sunday twenty-fifth of Auguft ; 

 one on Monday twenty-fixth of Auguft ; and 

 three or four which have burrowed fmcc that 

 time, not minuted. I now put the pot by, with 

 the glafs over it to prevent efcapes *. 



From thefe circumftances, from the frefh 

 flight of flies which appear to fpring up in 

 the middle of fummer, as well as from the 

 afiertions of more than one farmer, who fay, 

 that having ihut the caterpillars up in boxes 

 they came to flies (the particulars I have not 

 learned); it appears to me more than probable, 

 that the early broods pafs through the feveral 

 changes, and arrive at the fly-ftate, in the 

 courfe of the fummer : while, from the ftate 

 in which feveral of the chryfalifes above- 

 noticed flill remain, as well as from the fcat- 

 tered flights of flies which every year are ob- 

 ferved to make their appearance in the fpring, 



* Leaving the country, a flvort time afterwards, I had 

 not an opportunity of noticing the event. 



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