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Thcfekind of Butter flyes, feem to be weak fighted ^ 
they care not for flying, but rudn (wiftly, and they rnnij 
intofome darke corner, not caring for the light. 
They live of Honey gathered , out of Fiowers? and 
therfore have a long Tongue to fetch it out of the Bot- 
toms of flowers. 
This Tongue they carefully, when theyrunn, rollup, 
topreferve it from in|urics* they lye in darke places 
in Winter 
Number. 14. 
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The Catterpillar o£ the Table, Eats of the leaves 
of that PForm wood chiefly j which grows upon the Sea 
banks, I found it lifting upon that Plant, in an IJJand of 
Flattdert, near Axella, and Neoza, they are their whole 
Bodv throughout, exaftly of the colour of Sea Worm- 
8>o<?d,they are fierce, and Subtle and ftrike at whatever 
touches them, th'^y hold not very faft, they runn fwift- 
ly, where they feed they Icatter much Worm wood leaves, 
and when they are neverlb lightly touched ( of which 
they are exceeding impatient, tremble and feare ) they 
call themPdves down alfo, and hide themfelves there, 
where you can fcarce dilcern them, becaufe they are 
moft exaftly coloured like the Plant they feed on : they 
fave their Head by covering of it with the hinder part 
of their Body ,■ in the Face they are tender (* as I have 
experienced )and foon killed with afinall hurt in that 
part, and therefore are very carefull of it. 
Again I do wonder at their fo well enduring of colde 
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