PORCUPINE CATERPILLAR. 
discharging it's excrement. It experiences 
the different changes to which the Caterpillar 
tribe are subject." 
In addition to these particulars, we have 
also learned that, when any accident happens 
to the curious case in which this Caterpillar 
is enveloped, so as to lacerate or tear it in 
holes, the little animal repairs, with incredible 
expedition, whatever damage may have been 
received ; so that, in a very few hours, it fills 
up a large hole with the same silky substance, 
artd this with an exadlness so perfe6l that the 
nicest eye cannot discern what was the extent 
of the injury. 
The curious covering of this animal we 
have seen ; and, in it's texture, it much re^ 
sembles the finest fleecy hosiery : it is of a sort 
of grey ash, or mouse colour ; and has the 
silky softness of a mole skin. 
The Caterpillar, which is three inches long, 
lias eleven annulations, or rings, between the 
:iead, and the tail or extremity. The £rst 
hree of these annulations are of a fine yellow, 
beautifully 
