PORCUPINE CATERPILLAR, 
OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 
This curious Caterpillar, we have denomi- 
nared the Porcupine, from it's general resem- 
blance, when concealed in it's armed covering, 
to that auillcd animal. 
It is a native of New Holland ; and the 
beautiful drawing, which we have copied, 
was made at Port Jackson, in Nev^^ South 
Wales, where this inse6l is sufficiently com- 
mon. But though, like other Caterpillars, it 
certainly undergoes the different changes in- 
cident to the tribe, we have not l>een able to 
discover to what pardcular moth or fly it 
gives birth. We arc thankful, however, for 
such information as we can get, for the pre- 
sent, respeding any non-descript articles, 
and patiently wait the farther develope- 
ment of time: ado6lriae which we most cor- 
dially recommend to our readers; as some 
information is certainly better than none, and 
every Utile commonly gives rise to a little 
more. 
Jrom 
