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is black within-fide, and furrounded with a 
black ring: between this and the thorax there 
is a double bar of brown, between which runs 
a bar or line of a crimfon colour; on the out- 
fide, between it and the fan edges, there are 
two neat double undulated bars, which joining 
to a broad band of dark brown, reach from 
the tip or apex to the lower edge, all the way 
parallel to the fan or outer edge. A fine light 
ftone and a grey brown are the principal 
colours which decorate this grand infeft. The 
inferior wings are exaftly fimilar to the fupe- 
rior in their markings; but, in colouring, they 
differ, as the inferior wings have a pretty 
ftrongifh tint of pale crimfon all over them. 
The male is fomewhat lefs than the female, but 
more ftrong and beautiful in it's colour. The 
markings are alike ; but the inferior wings are 
of a fine orange colour; and the antennas are 
broad and pe£linated. 
The caterpillars are green; and each of their 
joints is feparated by a ring or circle of black 
emboffed with yellow ftuds. They feed on the 
willow, buckthorn, or cinquefoil ; and are full 
fed about the middle of July, when they weave 
themfelves ftrong cafes, about the fize of a 
fmall v/alnut, and in ftiape and colour like a 
bladder. At the neck or fmall end, which is 
that through which the Moth proceeds when 
it obtains it's liberty, it very artfully and cun- 
ningly contrives and fabricates a kind of che- 
vaux de frife, compofed of a number of 
fpikes, which it places round the hole, and 
leaning toward each other, meet in a point 
right over it, like the entering holes of a wire 
moufe-trap ; only with this difference, that 
the one is placed without fide, and the other 
within. No infeft can get at this Moth, either 
to deftroy or hurt it : but how it can get out 
in that weak and helplefs ftate which it is in 
when it firft breaks from the chryfalis, with- 
out tearing it's wings to pieces, is a moft 
aftoniihing circumftance. 
It changes into a chryfalis in July, as before ob- 
ferved ; and the Moth comes forth about the 
middle of April. 
Fig. 4. Clear-winged Humming-Bird. The 
antennJE of this infeft are clubbed, and termi- 
nate in a fharp hooked point at the end ; the 
head, thorax, and part of the abdomen, are of 
an olive colour; and the remainder of the 
abdomen is of a crimfon red, having a 
broad yellow bar, which confifts of two rings 
or joints, crofTing through it. The fuperior 
and inferior wings are tranfparent, being com- 
pofed of a fine thin filament, through which 
the tendons appear very ftrong; and the fan or 
external edges of both are bordered with a 
very deep brown. 
The caterpillars are known to feed on willow- 
wood, but very difficult to obtain : they change 
to the chryfalis ftate in Auguft, within the wood 
of the tree ; and the Moths appear in May, and 
are often feen flying in gardens among flowers. 
Fig. 5. Wainscot. The antennas of the male 
are finely peftinated, and appear of an equal 
thicknefs from the root to the extremity. The 
palpi are feparate, and refemble .tv/o points; 
the head, thorax, abdomen, and fuperior wings, 
are of a wainfcot colour, and lineated with 
brown, much in imitation of that wood, frorri 
whence it hath it's name ; and the inferior wings 
are of a darker colour than the fuperior, but 
have no marks on them. 
The female is much larger than the male, and her 
antenns are finer and much longer. 
The caterpillar feeds, and is always found on the 
ftems of flags, or the great-fword grafs, in ditches 
and other marfliy places. It is green, and hath, 
a pale darkifh line along the back; is full fed 
about May or Juncj and appears in the Moth 
ftate in Auguft. 
Fig. 6. Elephant. The antennje of this Moth 
are of a very pale brownifh pink colour ; the 
head is of a yellow olive hue, bordered with 
pink on each fide; and the thorax and abdomen 
are alfo of a yellow olive colour, lineated 
with lines of rofe-colour. The fuperior wings 
are rather of a darker olive; the fedlor edge is of 
a crimfon colour; there is abroad border of the 
fame on the fan edge; and two lines of the fame 
colour run from the tip to the lower flip edge, 
at a Imall diftance from each other. The in- 
ferior wings have a white neat border or edge, 
which indeed is nothing but the fringe; one half 
the wing above which is a fine crimfon red; 
the other half is black* 
The caterpillar feeds on the ladies bedftraw ; and 
is remarkable for having three large eye-like 
fpots of black and blue on each fide, near the 
head. The fexcs are diftinguiftiable in this 
ftate; the females are green, and the males olive 
brown. It is full fed about the beginning of 
Auguft ; it changes into a chryfalis in a web ; and 
the Moth appears about the latter end of May. 
Fig. 7. Scollop-Shell. The antennfe of this 
infeft are like threads; the whole of tlie head, 
the thorax, the abdomen, and the wings, are of 
apleafant light brown colour, beautifully marked 
with dark brown; and the wings in particular 
are full of undulated lines, which run clofe to 
each other in a zigzag m.anner likes waves, or 
the little wrinkles on a cockle or fcollop fhelL 
The caterpillar feed on the oak, and changes into 
a chryfalis in May; and the fly or Moth ap- 
pears towards the middle of June. 
They fly in the day-time, and may be taken near 
woods. 
Fig. 8. Swallow-Tail. The antenna of this 
Moth are of a pale yellow orange-colour, and 
thread-like; the frontlet is a pale brown; the 
eyes are black ; and the probofcis, wliich is long, 
lies curled up, like a watch-fpring, beneath the 
head. It is in fhape like a butterfly; and the 
under-wings have two prominent tails, one on 
tlie lower border of each wing, from which it 
takes its name. The whole Moth Is of a 
brimftone colour. On the fuperior wings there 
are two lines of yellow brown; and the infe- 
rior win2;s have but one bar on each. 
The caterpillar, which is a long red-browa 
luper, hath no marks ; it is encircled with a 
fmall ring about the middle part, which is a 
little more prominent than any other lying 
between it and the tail; the head appears flat; 
and at the tail there are two fliarp fliort fpikes* 
When this caterpillar is in a refting pofuion, it 
fettles on it's hinder legs; each of the reft 
I ftands out like a twig from the ftalk, with ap- 
parent 
