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il:iay be found hanging openly under a leaf, or any 
other convenient fhelter. Why it changes -in this 
naked and expofed ftate, contraiy to it's ufual prac- 
tice of concealing itfelf, is not eafily accounted for; 
but the moft probable reafon is, that the earwigs, 
which get into it's inclofures in great nunabers, 
oblige it to retire; and, being near the time of it's 
transformation, it is too feeble to make a frefli co- 
verture, and confequently remains in an expofed 
ftate. 
The chryfalis is of a beautiful pearl colour, co- 
vered with a fine bloom reprefenting that on the 
plum. But the chryfalides which bear this ap- 
pearance, are only luch as are found in the fields; 
for thofe produced from caterpillars fed in houfes, 
are of a dirty brown, though fometimes embel- 
lifhed with fmall golden fpots. The chryfalis ftate 
takes up a. period of twenty-one days, and then ap- 
pears the Admirable Fly; fo denominated from it's 
beautiful variety of colours. The female is larger 
than the male, and may be known by an addi- 
tional white fpot fituated in the red part of the fu- 
perior wings. It frequents folitary lanes, and places 
over-run with brambles, on the blolToms of which 
it continually fettles. It is extremely quick-fighted, 
timid, and fwift of wing; and, when purfued, ge- 
nerally takes fhelter in fome lofty tree, where it 
remains till it conceives the danger is paft. 
ADMIRABLE, WHITE. This beautiful in- 
fe6l has very feldom been difcovered in a caterpil- 
lar ftate in this kingdom, though the fly may be 
caught in the woods, in the latter end of June 
and the beginning of July. It flies with great ra- 
pidity, often flcimming like a fwallow, and feems 
to have a peculiar predile£lion for the leaves of 
the oak. Sometimes it fettles on the ground, in 
fhady paths of the woods : it is, however, extremely 
timorous; and, when aware of it's purfuer, darts over 
the tops of the higheft trees with inconceivable ve- 
locity, orfettles on the loftieft branches, from which 
it is not eafily diflodged. 
Though, as wehavejuft obferved, this infedl 
is not often found in a caterpillar ftate in Eng- 
land, it appears from the accounts of German na- 
turalifts, that it lays it's eggs on the veiy tops of 
the higheft poplars, where the young are hatched, 
and remain during the winter in the caterpillar 
ftate, fecuring themfelves by their webs ; that in 
the fpring they feed again, when awakened by the 
genial heat of the fun from their dormant ftate ; 
and, becoming full fed in the beginning of June, 
change to the chryfalis ; when, towards the end of 
June, the White Admirable, fo much efteemed by 
aurelians, is produced. 
ADMIRAL. A very beautiful and precious 
fhell of the voluta kind, of which the curious enii- 
merate four fpecies : the Grand Admiral, the Vice 
Admiral, the Orange or Rear Admiral, and the 
Extra Admiral. 
The firft of thefe is held in fuch high eftimation, 
that a fingle fhell has been fold in Elolland for five 
hundred florins. It's colour is a very elegant and 
fliining white enamel, variegated with yellow 
bands, reprefenting, in fome meafure, the colours 
of the flag of a man of war at fea, from which fan- 
cied refemblance it obtained it's name. The fliape 
is peculiarly curious, and the elegance about the 
head is almoft inconceivable, the clavicle being ex- 
erted. Along the centre of the. large yellov/ band 
in this fhell, runs a beautiful denticulated line, 
which is it's diftinguifhing characfleriftic. 
The Vice Admiral is likewife a very valuable 
fliell ; but the conformation of the head is lefs ele- 
gant than that of the Grand Admiral ; and it's 
broad band wants the denticulated line which 
diftinguifhes the latter. 
The Orange Admiral contains more yellov/ fcrix 
than the others; from v/hich peculiarity it derives 
it's name. 
The Extra Admiral has the fame form and bands 
as the former; but thefe bands, running into one 
another, form a mixed nebulous appearance, which 
confiderably varies in different fticils. 
ADONIS. A fmall fifta of the anguiiliform 
kind, about fix inches long, of a cylindric fliape; 
and a golden colour intermixed with a greenifh 
hue, and fometimes a reddifli one. A white 
ftraight line runs on each fide from the gills to the 
tail ; the gills are remarkably fmall, which has in- 
duced fome fuperficial obfervers to conclude that 
it was deftitute of any; however, from a minute 
examination, the contrary appears to be the fa6t. 
It is remarkable for fleeping on the furface of the 
waters, and near the fhores; and Rondeletius af- 
firms, that he has even feen it repofmg on the dry 
rocks. 
This fifh is alfo called exocastus ; and Ray fu- 
fpedrs it to be the fame with the exocaetus of Bel- 
lonius, or the gottorugine. 
ADOSCULATION. A term ufed by natu- 
ral hiftorians to exprefs a fpecies of copulation or 
impregnation by mere external contaft between 
the genitals of the two fexes without intromif- 
fion. Several kinds of birds, fiilies, and particu- 
larly fliell-fifli, are impregnated by this method of 
generation. 
iEGLEFINUS. A name given by the gene- 
rality of authors to the haddock, a well known fifh, 
of a middle nature between the cod and the v/hit- 
ing; called by others the onos, or s^finus anti- 
quorum. See Haddock. 
iEGOCEPHALUS. The ciafTical name of 
the bird known in England by the appellation of 
the godwit or flone-plover. 
iEHOITULLA. An Eaft Indian ferpent, fre- 
quently found in the Ifland of Ceylon, of a very 
long and flender form, fometimes wholly green, 
and fometimes variegated green and white. It lives 
principally among trees and bufhes, and does not 
appear to be of a very venomous nature. 
^LQUAPPE. A fifli of the muftela kind, 
the viviparous eelpout, called by fome muftela 
vivipara, aelpute, aelmoder, and aelmutter. Ir 
grows to about a foot in length; the fkin is per- 
feftly fmooth ; the head and back are of a brownifh 
yellov/, marked with blotches of black; the co- 
lour of the back becomes paler as it approaches 
towards the belly, and on the belly is quite 
whitifh. The head is fhaped like an eel, and there 
are four sifts on each fide; the back-fin reaches 
the whole length of the body, terminating near the 
tail ; and the belly-fin rifes at the anus, and reaches 
to the extremity of the fifti, ending in a fine, flen- 
der, and fomewhat reddifh tail. Befides thefe, it has 
two pair of fins : one at the bottom of the gills, 
which are rather broad ; the other under the throat, 
which are very fine and flender. The young of 
this fpecies are often found alive in one fifh to the 
number of three hundred: .thefe are fometimes 
upwards of an inch in length, and will live after 
they are feparated from the parent ftock. 
^RICA. The clafllcal name given by Gaza 
and others to the common herring. 
iESALON. A fpecies of hawk of the long- 
winged race, called in Englifh the merlin. It is 
the fmalleft of the hawk-kind, ufed in the diverfion 
of 
