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Elder if now perchance he had a mind to eat after so long fasting, 

 but he would not tast them. The 2nd of May I gave him the full 

 grown leaves of Elder, and at length I found hira eating of them. 

 But so it was that 3 days before he fell to eating agaiue he had 

 drawn a thread along the sand which 1 lay'd for him out of the 

 saliva of his mouth, and that thread was a long one, and much 

 small sand stuck to it like so many threded beades; by the help 

 of his fore feet he drew this thred to his mouth againe, and 

 swallowed the sand, as I guessed to change his sick stomack, as 

 certain eels swallow prickly small fish for their stomack's sake. 

 And that also was worth the noting in him that he was grown a 

 third part bigger in thicknesse aud length since he eat than he was 

 when I first had him, that he also I'oled his body in the sand, and 

 tued him there as oft as he eat. The 16lh May he fastned ihe 

 hinder parts of his body to the Glasse which I kept him in, his 

 head hanging downwardes, and he cloathed hira selfwilh leaves, 

 and a Web woven by him round about his body, in the form of a 

 little bag or net, into which bag (changing) he put off his skin, and 

 let go his hold from the Glasse, to which, with his hinder part of 

 his body, he had held fast, he let himself fall with his whole body, 

 and in this posture he betook himselfe to change. The day after 

 he had that forme which is expressed in the table ; the 24th of 

 June came forth an unusuall and wonderfuU Bulterjiij, of a yellow 

 colour, golden haired, which, very much shaking his body, dyed 

 the 5th of July." 



Six-spot BurneL—" The Catterpillars of the 37th Table are 

 rare : I found this in a sand hill the 23rd of June, sitting upon 

 Grasse, which grows there (called in Dutch Duin Grass), and I 

 took it home with me to try what cou'd become of it. The day 

 after a little animall like a beetle crept forth of the hinder parts of 

 its body, figured in Table 37. The caterpillar after this refused all 

 food, and contracting and winding its body, it changed at length. 

 The little animall lived, but stirred not much, only shaked itselfe, 

 it changed snake-like and the skin being cast, it was of a golden 

 colour on the fore part of its body and russet the hinder : it had 

 six feet and two liltle horns; it eat rose leaves and flowers of the 

 elder. The Catterpillar, the mother of this beetle, changed the 

 first of July, and remained in that condition untill the 21st of the 

 same month, then a beautiful Butterfly came forth, which lived 

 9 days fasting." 



