C 50 ) 
When ihefe great C after pillars are at their full growth 
and bignefsj they feek out where to reft, in order to their 
change, it changed in an Old and dryed mllon^ Tree the 
beginingof June^ as isFigured 'm the Table^md the 23^. 
«>f Xr? forth a great Butterfly^ which moved 
not out of its place,it was Hatched in 3 and Dyed there 
after Eight Days , (hutting its Wings. 
Catterpillar, 1 have alfo found in the Body of 
4«OakeTree, new Feld and Sawn a funder^ wherein it 
makps holes :^y on may turn your Finger in : The Romans 
had a way to feed thefe Fat^ and did eat them asa delitious 
Food^ they called them Coffi. It has a very rank^ and Jirong 
fmely is a little hairy ^and ^?/'4Reddi{h, hut pale colour* 
2d. The remarke of Willow Sawduji affording a 
reffne^ is curioufe and the frji time^ that I met with it in 
any Author5Pliny ( lib. i6.c.i8.^ fayes the Gaules had a 
way of extraSing a bitumen from Birtch, which is asim- 
probable:^ however to this pnrpofe fome of the Old Trees we 
dig up out of our Mountanous Mojfes in the Weft-rideing 
f?/ York' (hire, are certainly no other then Birtch:^ and when 
dry do Bvrnewith as lajiing a Flame fik§ Firr-Tree^//«- 
ters^ which gives the occaffon ofcallingthem Firr-wood. 
3d. As to the Generation of this Catter- 
pillar, and other lafcfts, I have declared my opinion in the 
Negative.This ismojl cert ain^^t hat thefe Coffi are hatched of 
Eggs layd by their Animall Parents, and that thefe very 
little Worms are capable of piercing theTree^ by little and 
little:, that is as they Eat:, that probably thefe little Holes 
grow up againC:,after they are once fully entered:,at leaf fo as 
not to be vifiblcy but to a very diUigent enquiry. Again pro^ 
hably they change not:, but are in the Difgvife of a Catterpil* 
Jar,^r many Tear s-ywhich is agr cable to my own obfervath 
ons^all which things render theOh^QXYdXAon very tedious^ 
but / little doubh the truth of it^ and that this Catter- 
pillarg, 
