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Number. S4< 
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The Green CatterpHlar^ of the 7^tL Tables on 
Sallow Leavesj untill the end of Snmmen It begins to 
Eat at break of Days and eats with great greedinefi 5. or 
5« Hours without ceafing^ or other imployment .* It ne- 
ver voids its excrements^ unleG when new food drives 
out the old. It cleaves fo fafl: to the Sallow leaves^ that 
it can fcarce be plucked from them h but will fuffer it felfe 
firft to bepluckt in pieces. In the hindmoft part ofitsBo^ 
dy it has a fliarp Finn or Stwg ^ and Vcmmous^ which it 
vfes (asfoonas it is troubled) to defend it felfe with^ 
with a fwift agitation 3 and every where 5 that it may 
Wound them that hurts it^with the motion of the Sting. 
The Male Catterpillars are Greenfas we faid Jand want 
thofe round fpocts which look like Eves, the Females are 
not fo Beautifallj but of a more Grayidi colour. 
Before that th^^^Canerpillars change^ they moveloog 
and much^and exaftly clean themfelvesofall Excrements.- 
they make rhemfelves no covering ( as all other Catter- 
pillars are diligently wont to doe J but put ing off their 
Hackle^they are changed into ash exprefTed 
in the Table. 
This change happnedthe ipL of September ^166^^ 
and the 51A. of May^ the Y ear following 1 6 64. came forth 
a lufty Butterfly^ which lived till the 14/^. o^May fafting* 
I could never Obferve from thcfe kind of Catterpillars 
a perfeft and compleat Butterfly^ but with contraftcd^ 
and as it were fcorched WingSj not to be expanded^ or fit 
for flight. They are wont to lay their Eggs before they 
dye. - F (i ) 
