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Vine, and Tome other plants, but prefer white ladies bedflraw ; they 

 caft their fkins feveral times, and when full fed are fome green, and 

 others of a brown colour. The Caterpillars ®f the female are a fine 

 green elegantly marked with black, as reprefented in our plate ; thofe 

 of the male are varied with the fame dark markings, but the colour is 

 a dull brown inclining to black in thofe parts where the females are 

 green. 



It pofTefles a faculty peculiar to a very few Infedls, it can protrude 

 its head and three firft joints to a tapering point ; or entirely conceal 

 the head and contract, the firft joints, by drawing them apparently into 

 its body. 



The Caterpillars form a white fpinning among the leaves in 

 Augujl; remain in the pupa ftate during the winter ; the Fly comes 

 forth in the May following. They are frequently deftroyed by am 

 Ichneumenon fly. 



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