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grailed, much refembling thofe of the common Netted Locuft. 

 Its caterpillar (feeds on Baccove leaves, a fort of Plantane) has a 

 hairy forked tail ; the body brown, with four prickles on its back, 

 with other hairy ones on its head. Its brown coffin was fpotted 

 on each fide with filver ; turned Dec. 3. and hatched before Chrift- 

 mas ; three inches broad, and above fix long. G. 143. 1, 2, 21. 



SECT. IV. Caudated, or Tail-winged Butterflies, commonly 

 called Pages. 



23. Green, Streaked Jamaica Page. Tab. 29. Papilio cati- 

 datus Jamaic. nigreflcens utrinque ex viridi aureo fplendide Jlriatus, 

 Muf. Pet. 509. The ground of this black, very elegantly ftriped 

 with pale blue and fhinir.g green of a metallick luftre ; its length 

 four inches, and breadth three, whereof its tail was one. Its 

 caterpillar green (feeds on Shadock or Pumplenofe leaves) finely 

 befet with hairy briftles, longeft towards the head and tail ; the 

 coffin brown and fpotted ; changed Aug. 3. and burft the 19th. 

 Gaz. 151. 3. 



24. Red-ftreaked Maryland Page. Tab. Page de la Reine 

 Gallis. Papilio caudatus Marianus fluflcus, flriis palle/centibus, lined 

 13 maculis flanguineis Jubtus ornatus Muf. Pet. 508. This refembles 

 the laft in Ihape and lize, but inftead of its greenifti luftre is whi- 

 tifli, and underneath has a Angular ftreak through each lower wing. 

 This caterpillar is black, Tpeckled with white, and hairy-briftled, 

 (very like that of our Englilh Peacock's-Eye) ; but thefe at the 

 end are ftellated. This changed, April 3. into a brown coffin, 

 and hatched the 17th. 



25. Small Silver-fpotted Surinam Cotton Page. Tab. 10. Pa- 

 pilio Surin. caudatus minor, werruculis ex aureo argenteis Jubtus ele- 

 ganter ajperfus Gaz. 10. 9. This is a fmall pale Butterfly, with 

 brownilh tips ; the two innermoft the longeft, with others much 

 fliorter, all tipt with white, and underneath finely bolfed with 

 metallick fhining blifters. The caterpillar feeds on the Cotton- 

 bulh, is fmooth, of a whitifli yellow fpeckled with black. This 

 changed June 19. and hatched July 24. Gaz. 141. 10, 11, 12. 



SECT.V. CuRL-WiNGEDButterflies, are fuch whofe lower Wings 

 are fcolloped, curled, or indented ; called by fome Carols. 



26. Red-fpotted, Black Carol. Tab. 17. Papilio dentatus niger 

 Surinam, maculis rubris. The ground of thefe black : each upper 

 wing above has four white fpots, and many red on both fide., of 

 the lower. Its caterpillar is elegantly marked and ftreaked with 

 yellowifh thorns on each wing, and two on his forehead : thefe 

 feed on the Lime, or Wild Lemon-tree ; and turn into a brown 

 coffin, which burfts, the beginning of April, into a fly above four 

 inches long, and two broad. 



27. Green Rofe Carol. Tab. 31. Papilio dent, viridis S urin. 

 hnulis Jubtus tricoloribus. This is wholly dark green above, as are 

 its upper wings below ; but the lower brown-edged, with three 

 rows of moon-like fpots, the innermoft red, middle blue, the outer 

 yellow ; of much the fame make and*fize with the next, and change 

 at the fame time, viz. Aug. 30. it coffined, and hatched Sept. 14. 

 Gaz. 144. 24, 25, 26. 



28. Yellow Rofc Carol. Tab. 31. Papilio dentat. Surinam. 

 } l u teo iff nigro mixtus. The ground of this is dark-brown ; the 

 middle yellow, as are its iunets : it is near five inches long and two 

 broad. This and the laft may be male and female, both hatched 

 from caterpillars, which feed on the Changeable American Double 

 or Rofe Holly-oak. 



SECT. VI. Longales are Butterflies that have their upper Wings 

 very long, and much narrower than the under. 



29. Gua<va Longale. Tab. 19. Papilio longipennis Surin. niger, 

 tampis tr an/par entibus. The caterpillar of this is green and fmooth, 

 with a black face ; its coffin common-like and brown. This in 

 Auguft, after a fortnight's lying, breaks into a black butterfly with 

 tranfparent fields, three inches and a half long, and little more 

 than one broad. 



■ 30. Small Tranfparent Longale. Tab. 35. Papilio longipennis 

 minor Surin. niger, maa/lis tranjlucidis. This is much fmaller than 

 the laft ; the upper wings fpotted, the lower pale and felvedged ; 

 the caterpillar brown and hairy. It coffined April 10. and hatched 

 the 23d ; was fomething more than two inches long, and near one 

 broad. 



31. Tricolor Longale. Tab. 30. Papilio longipennis Surin. e ?ii- 

 gro lutco ac inferius rubra mixtus. Its outer wings above are black 

 and yellow ; its inner fcarlet, with a black felvcdge. The caterpil- 

 lar greenifli, with very long whitifli hair : it coffined May 3. and 

 hatched the 17th into a fly near three inches long, and one broad. 

 Gaz. 144. 4, 5, 6. 25, 27. , 



SECT. VII. Miscellany Butterflies, viz. fuch as in fome 

 Refpecls agree not with the former. 



32. Broad-winged Cajfada Butterfly. Tab. 4. Papilio Surin. 

 ex albedine iff fljco mixtus, maculis lunulatis flmbriatus. The cater- 

 pillar is brown and hairy ; feeds on the Yucca, or Caflada : it 

 coffined June 12. and July 1. broke out a pale and brown butter- 

 fly, with lunetted felvedges, three inches long, and one and a half 

 broad. Gaz. 143. 21. 



33. Arnotto Butterfly. Tab. 44. Papilio medius njiridis Surinam. 

 Jubtus rubflcens. This is about two inches long and one broad, 

 green above, reddilh below, with a broad large white fiant from 

 the midft of its lower wings. The caterpillar fcarlet, with yellow 

 circles and red hair; feeds on theUrucu, or Arnotto : April 4. it 

 turned into a hairy red coffin, and May 6. changed as above. 

 Gaz. 146. 4, 5, 6. 19, 20, 21. 



34. Vanillia Butterfly. Tab. 25. Papilio exoticus aureus, ma- 

 culis argenteis iff nigris, fubtus eleganter ajperfus, Muf. Pet. 519. 

 Is of an orange colour fpotted with black, as it is much more 

 elegantly underneath with filver, efpecially the lower wings. The 

 caterpillar is fcarlet ftreaked with yellow, and feeds on Vanillia 

 leaves : it turned, towards the end of May, into its chryfalis, or 

 coffin, and hatched June 7. as above. N. B. Thefe butterflies are 

 frequent in Jamaica, where the Vanillia has lately been difcovered 

 to grow : they are alfo pretty common in Carolina, where it may 

 likewife probably grow, and might be foon difcovered, if the 

 curious would but carefully obferve to what plants and flowers 

 this infect reforts. Gaz. 144. 7, 9. 



CAP. III. Phalen^e, or Moths. 



SECT. I. Hawkoms, or Hawk-Moths ; from the playing on 

 the Wing, and hovering, like them ; for they never fettle 

 whilft feeding, having a very long Probofcis, or Snout, to fetch 

 the Dew out of Tubulous Flowers, as Jafmines, &c. Many of 

 thefe are wonderful large. 



1. fyjpficum Hawk-Moth. Tab. 55. Accipitrina media Su- 



rinam. cincrea, corpore maculato. This is a grey moth, 

 undulated above, and ftreaked below ; about five inches 

 from tip to tip, viz. between the extremities of each outer wing 

 when expanded : on each fide of its body are five round orange 

 fpots, with fix white ones under them. Thefe fly in the night 

 only. The caterpillar is green and fmooth, with a white lift down 

 its back, and a purple below, with dots and flants between : on 

 his tail is a crooked red horn, pounced with black ; and in marks 

 and Ihape very much refembles our Englilh Privet caterpillar; feeds 

 on the leaves and fruit of the Capficum, or Guinea Red Pepper. 

 Jan. 22. it turned into a fnouted brown coffin, which changed 

 Febr. 16. Gaz. 142. 10, 11. 



2. Cajfada Hawk-Moth. Tab. 5. Accipitrina major Surinam. 

 cinerea, corpore maculato. The three upper rings of the body, next 

 the fhoulder, have on each fide an orange fpot : both wings above 

 are finely waved with black and white ; and it is feven inches be- 

 tween each tip. The head, feet, and tail, of this caterpillar, are 

 red ; the body five inches long, fmooth, large, and black, with 

 white girdles ; its tail horned. They are fo great devourers of 

 the Caffada, that fome years they caufe a dearth or fcarcity of that 

 bread. Thefe, in December, after they have caft their Ikin, 

 change into a brown fwadled coif coffin, which a month after turns 

 into the aforefaid hawkom. Gaz. 140. 8, 19, 20, 21, 22. 



3. Male, or Lefl'er Hedge-Coral Hawk-Moth. Tab. 11. Acci- 

 pitrina major fujca Surin. undata, flu Mas. Gaz. 142. I. 



4. Female, or Greater Hedge-Coral Hawk-Moth. Tab. 11. 

 Accipitrina max. fluflca Surin. J'eu Fcemina. Both thefe are green, 

 brown, marbled moths, which hatched a various changing cater- 

 pillar : thefe thrice a year infeft a tree, which the Dutch in Suri- 

 nam call Palifaden Boom, or Palifado Tree, making beams, 

 boards, and pales of it. Thefe caterpillars are yellow, with black 

 rings, armed with fix fpikes. Before thefe have acquired half 

 their growth, they change their outer fkin, and become of an 

 orange colour, with a black fpot on each fide of every ring, ftill 

 retaining their fpikes or thorns ; and in a few days they change 

 again, and then lofe them ; otherwife like thofe in the laft ftate, 

 except much larger, viz. four inches long, and proportionably 

 thick. Thefe coffined April 14. 1701. and mothed June 12. the 

 male fix inches, the other more than feven long. G. 141. 13,14, 

 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. 



5. Greater Marbled Fig Hawk-Moth. Tab. 33. Accipitrina 

 Ficoides major Surin. e fuivo & fufco mixta. The body of this 

 is dark brown, as is the ground of its wings ; the reft burF. This 

 feems the male of the next, and is above five inches long. 



6. Lefler Brown Fig Hanuk-Motb. Tab. 33. Accipitrina Fi- 

 coides Surin. pene fluflca. This has a bufhy tail, as the other was 

 pointed; the wings murray, or dark brown, with very little buffi; 

 above four inches long. Both thefe came from the fame caterpil- 

 lar, which is at firft green, ftreaked with yellow, and tail-horned : 

 thefe afterwards turn into an orange colour, circled with red, but 

 head and tail black ; thick as one's thumbs, and near fix inches 

 long : in this ftate it eats not, but turned into a brown coffin 

 March 22. hatched April 12. 



7. Grey, Marbled, Guana Hawk-Moth. Tab. 57. Accipitrina 

 media Surinam, cinerea, undis nigris, corpore maculato. Between 

 each tip was four inches and a half; the wings grey, finely mar- 

 bled ; the body dark, with five round orange fpots on each fide. 

 The caterpillar tail-horned, green, with fix pale flants on each 

 fide, with an eye-fpot between each ; about five inches long, and 

 finger thick : chryfalifed May 20. into a bow-beaked reddilh coffin, 

 mothed June 14. 



8. Pale, Jajmine Hawk-Moth. Tab. 4.6. Accipitrina cinerea 

 minor Surin. alis Jubtus flaveflcentibus. This is a grey moth, about 

 five inches between each tip : it has an eye-fpot near the middle 

 of each upper wing, below moftly yellowiih ; the reft grey. The 

 caterpillar four inches long, fmooth and green, with black gir- 

 dles, and a broad yellow one near the neck ; coffined Febr. 12. 

 and mothed March 16. 



9. Orange, Goliah Hawk-Moth. Tab. 52. Accipitrina max. 

 Sericifera Surinam, undata, albis quatuor feneftris. This is above 

 eight inches long, and three and a half broad in the middle, and 

 four and a half on the outer edges : it has a broad waved felvedge ; 

 the reft brown, with crooked white ftrcaks, and in the midft of 

 each wing a large tranfparent window-pane, refembling lantern 

 or Mufcovy glafs. The caterpillar eats the leaves of the China 



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