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The mdle fiate or dlfguife of a Buittrfly iy called ty th'$ 
Greeks Ghry fall's, oratbingg»ilt'as the mrd impntetb : 
The Lattn hath left us no namcy that I know ejf; H'e bane 
Tranflated it Aurelia. The JLatines however tail the Cat- 
terpillar Eruca .• trhicb is a wprd ( as IgMeJjeftem a place 
in Vitruvias ) which figni^es in the old Tufcaa Language 
Viride serisjand thence borrowed topgnife a Catterpillar •, f or 
feme Catterpillers there arey which 1 have feen in Languedoc 
feeding'^n a certain Common Tithymal, very notably painted 
■with a fea green Coloary or Slew. So that as the\gmlding of 
fame few Chryfalifes, gave a denomination to all | its ifks 
manner the Blew Colour of fome one Catterpillar gave the 
Name to all the refi. ais for the Guilding it felfe , I take 
it to be nothing elfe y but the Scum of an evaporated juice 
between the Skin of the Catterpillariand the jbed of the Chry« 
faJisj which iafi it covers^ 
NtiEiiber. 7. g . p . 
^ TA 
Few Cawerpiliars love Cabbage, and yet the Cat* 
terpiilars which are defigned in the 7*- Table :■ eat 
while Cabbage, but will aot touch the Red Cabbage. 
Cold and moift weather is a very great enemy to them 
and foon deftroys them , and they wither to nothing, 
but skin. 
They have a double time of change ; if that happen 
in Summer, it is at an ehd foone, but if it begin in Au- 
latnne, it lads untill the follovying Summer 5 1 nave ex- 
perienc’d both changes. 
One of the Catterpillars of the 7** Table changed 
the Firfi of Jsljj aod the ia**of the white 
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