NATURAL HISTORY of NORWAY. 47 



SECT. IX. 



Of the Caterpillar-kind there are fome fmall ones that are found Caterpillar. 

 in houfes, and are called Mol, that is, Moths j they fpoil cloaths : 

 others live in fields and gardens, where they are known by the 

 name of Kaal Orm, and do a vaft deal of mhchief ; others 

 live on the trees, and damage the fruit : we have them here 

 in great variety, and worthy to fall under Reaumur's exami- 

 nation. 



What in this place is to be obferved as the country's peculiar 

 property, rs, firft, that thefe Worms particularly love our Nor- 

 way hawthorn trees, where their web is found fixed fometimes 

 like a fine gauze ; fo that it feems they are fatisfied with the 

 leaves of this fhrub 7 for want of mulberry leaves ; and then the 

 Butterflies, which afterwards come forth from their Nymphis, Butterflies. 

 are not only of various colours and glofs, as in other places *, but 

 there is formed here one very rare and peculiar fort, which is 

 quite blue ; of which a friend of mine fent a pair very lately to 

 Copenhagen, to be put in the rare collection of Infe&s which his 

 excellence, the iecret conference cgunfellor, count Rabe, has be- 

 gun, and is determined to enlarge. 



Bees, Bier, do not generate here : our Summers are too fhort 

 for them, but yet Humble-bees, and other flying Infe&s, are 

 very frequent. We have common Flies, large and fmall, black, fk«. 

 grey, and brown, with fpotted andftriped wings. They are all 

 feen here, particularly in the Autumn, in fuch quantities that 

 they are very troublefome in the houfes. And we have large and 

 fmall Gnats much more numerous; which, with their buzzing Gnat8 

 and (tinging, awake the deeping : they would be infurTerable, if 

 they were not drove away by fmoaking the bed-chamber. 



We have particularly a fort of large gnat, called Mehenk a 

 which gives the moft trouble. Ol. Magn. obferves, L. xix. c. 

 15. that when the fouth wind blows in Winter, there comes 

 forth from the earth, from under the ihow, vaft quantities of 

 fmall Gnats, that fwarm mightily about, till the north-wind 

 blows, which kills them; but they revive, or come to life 



* La prodigieufe variete des formes des infe&es de differentes claffes & de diffe- 

 rens genres, offre un grand fpeclacle a qui fcait les confiderer : Quelle variete dans 

 la figure de leurs corps, dans le nombre de leurs jambes, dans leur arrangement 8$ 

 dans la figure & ftruclure des ailes, dont les unes font des efpeces de gazes & dont 

 les autres font couvertes de pouffiere, de figures regulieres & arrangees, comme des 

 tuiles. Autres ailes ont des etuis, dans lefquels elks fe tiennent le plus fouvent pliees 

 par art. Reaumur L. C. T. i. p. i. p. 17. 



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