1838.] Note on the New Zealand Caterpiller. 787 



Walka satani ^am into barina How are you taxed in your country ? 



Nikka odurton ketlumororchi nanta How far can you go a day ? 



Morni yamal ke ki unusunna Saddle the horse that 1 may take a 



ride. 

 Odur bega burja boz ki warchi ena The day is far spent rise and let 



us go. 

 Bida ira labda /rftismat tortani enaka I came to wait on you, now give me 



ru/f/jsat kftunf ki warchya girtuna leave to go home. 

 Dundadii mani kudal beyagaga Let there be no deceit between you 



and me. 

 t?ndut dundan ; ji a«aza bila ka There was a report in the camp 



Muhammad Shah ukujanna that Muhammad Shah was dead. 



EJjiganm maniuchkan soni kula^ai Yesternight a thief stole an ass of 



achichanna ; daisunni katkair yat- mine by cutting his tether; the 



trajanne nikka mehman bila teni thief also stole an ass of a guest 



eljiganin kulaghai achichanna of mine. 



IV. — Note on the New Zealand Caterpillar. By G. Evans, Esq, 

 Curator of the As. Soc. Museum. 



After a careful scrutiny of the New Zealand caterpillar entrusted to 

 my charge at a former meeting and on which I was requested to report 

 as to the precise, or most probable nature of the remarkable and appa- 

 rently anomalous connection existing between the animal and the 

 vegetable fibril projecting from its head (an extraordinary feature in 

 the economy of this curious insect that has led to the fanciful belief 

 that we have here an unequivocal instance before us of animal and 

 vegetable life linked together in one continuous existence) I am led to 

 the following conclusions. 



That the caterpillar, the subject of our speculations and present in- 

 quiry, is the larva of a lepidopterous insect, that contrary to the general 

 law of its own order, it neither fabricates a cocoon, nor constructs any 

 kind of defence to protect itself from injury for the time it has to con- 

 tinue in the aurelia or chrysalis state, but as some provision is doubt- 

 less necessary for its future preservation, to enable it to fulfil its desti- 

 ny as intended by nature, it resorts to another expedient equally 

 efficacious and tending to the same wise and benificent ends, and this 

 is by artfully suspending itself by the head from some part of the tree 

 or plant on which it feeds, in which pendulous state it continues 

 stationary and undergoes its natural metamorphosis. 



The manner by which it contrives to attach itself to the slender 

 tendril, (or vegetable fungus as some have considered it,) and which is 

 truly pure vegetable matter, and a continuous part of the same tree it 

 derives its support from, appears to be simple and easy of explanation, 



