TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
Chapter I. 
Page. 
Of Caterpillars in general, amongst which is comprised 
the Silk-Worm ....... 1 
1. General and distinguishing Characteristics of Cater- 
pillars 3 
2. Transitions which Caterpillars undergo ... 5 
3. Of the Manner in which Caterpillars live, feed, and 
exist 8 
4. Of the Passage from the Caterpillar State to that 
of apparent Death or Chrysalis . . . .11 
5. Change of the Chrysalis into a perfect Animal or 
Moth ; Production of the impregnated Eggs ; Death 
of the Moth 15 
6. Of the Means by which Nature incessantly tends to 
destroy an immense Number of Caterpillars, that their 
excessive Augmentation may not pass the prescribed 
Limits which it has appointed ; of the artificial Means 
by which they may be destroyed . . . . 1(> 
Chapter II. 
Of the Silk- Worm 20 
Chapter III. 
Of the only Food suitable to the Silk- Worm . . 26 
