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This eamrpillar when he had (pent a whole Day in 
Creepeing about, he refted under certain leaves 5 and 
there changed the 2 5^/. of September ^ and remained in that 
condition,Figured in the tahle.^fp Months and 4 Days 5 for 
the laft of jf««e,the year following, came forth a mo(t beau- 
tifu’il Butter fly, painted with divers colours wonderfully. 
, There are fome of thefe Catterpillars , twice as big 
and as long as others, I took a leller Catterpillar of this 
forte, and I fed it long, but as the feafon of the Year de- 
dined, and leaves grew harde, he could not Eat thenis 
he not withftanding had endeavoured to change, but no» 
thing came ofhim, and I left my experiment. 
But ftanding^at my Doors, fet about with Elmes^ l£aw 
agreat company ofcatterpillartnpomn E/we bough up- 
on which without doubt their Mothers had laid them. 
Thde little Catterpillers let themfelves down, by cer- 
tain (ingle Threds out of their mouthes, they were all 
exceeding Green, and Pelluced, I took them and fed them 
with Elme leaves under a GIafs,they all Honied themlelves 
with houfts ofSand and Spittle, againft the cold and of 
winter. In Spring I let them feek their own food. 
I have not all the fatisfa&ion I eoud in Tranflat- 
ing this Hiftory, I find it Jb imperfe& and dijordered s 
undoubtedly the Latin Tranuator is much to blames ihave 
mended the Text^ where itjpeakes of the great Catterpillars 
being the Mother of the little ones , then which nothing 
can be more abjurd ; again we have here an Aurelta, put 
for a Butterfly 0"c. If it were matter of Falf and pojji- 
tively ajferted by our Author, as his Objervation^ ifiou’d 
not have alter it i but its exprefied% at a conceit only- 
Number. 
