*lhe Complete Angler. 101 



Nay, the very colours ofCaterpt/- 

 lers are,as one has obierved,very ele- 

 gant and beautiful:! fhal (for a taite of 

 the reft(defcribe one of them, which 

 I will fometime the next month, 

 fhew you feeding on a Willow tree, 

 and you fhal find him pun&ually to 

 anfwer this very defcription: "His 

 "lips and mouth fomewhat yel- 

 "low, his eyes black as Jet, his 

 "fore-head purple, his feet and 

 "hinder parts green, his tail two 

 "forked and black, the whole body 

 ^ftain'd with a kind of red fpots 

 "which run along the neck and 

 " fhoulder-blades, not unlike the 

 "form of a Crofs, or the letter X, 

 "made thus crofs-wife , and a 

 "white line drawn down his back 

 "to his tail; all which add much 

 "beautytohiswholebody. Anditis 

 to me obfervable,that at a fix'd age 

 this Caterpiller gives over to eat, and 

 towards winter comes to be coverd 

 over with a ftrange fhell or cruft,and 

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