beautifully marked with black or dusky oblong 
spots ; and these annulations have each two 
claws : the other eight rings are of a diityi.sh 
pale yellow colour; but the part above the 
^jyent has the appearance of being covered wi .h 
large scale, though it is, in fadl, only a 
substance of the s,ime beautiful spotted yellow 
as the head and three first annulations. 
We are opinion, that the animal seldom 
crawds out far beyond the third annulation, in 
pursuit of it's food - from the circumstance of 
those alone having any claws or feet: though 
that, we are sufficiently aware, in the Cater- 
pillar race, can by no means be considered as 
a rule. 
This kind of armed covering, it seems, is 
not quite peculiar to the Porcupine Caterpillar 
which we have delineated ; for, as our friend 
informs us, there are, in New South Wales, 
a smaller kind of CaterjiiUars, or grubs, 
which make these cases muci\ stronger than 
the specimen now given ; being termed of 
twigs about an inch in length, laid close toge- 
ther over a case of siik. 
It 
