colour, fomewliat fhaded with an Ijahella or faint 
yellowifli ftripes the length of the Worm j they had 
14 feet, after the manner of many Caterpillars , and 
T was almoft confident would have produced fome 
fort of Moath. I took up about a fcore of them, 
and put them into a Box, but they immediately of^ 
fended me with an ungrateful and ftrong ftink, which 
yet is not ufual to the Caterpillar kind. However 
I kept them 2 days, but by reafon of fome Appre- 
henfions and fear the Ladies had of them, where I 
fojourned , and upon their intreaties I rid my felf 
of them J I only obferved, that the Excrements which 
they voyded , were little hard Pellets of pure white 
flower, like that of Barly. Thefe and other things 
might be Arguments of the power hot weather hath 
in the hafty quickning the Births of Infects , as well 
as producing them ; but I conceive it lefs ufeful to 
Philofophy to difpute, then to deliver faithfully mat- 
ters of Fad:. 
December 23, 1970. 
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