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Number. 53. 
I fed the catterpillars of the table ; with Alder and tI'x' 
Paretree leavet from the '28th. of Maji: whenit had Eaten 
enough, it faftnedit felfe to thefidesofa leafe, lifting up 
his head, at Sun fet it drew in its head and flept alJ night 5 
but fome of thefe Catterpillars^ will fleep 17. or i§. 
hours together, on the contrary others will creep up and 
down two Days and two Nights without food or reft- 
ing j the hinder or lower parts of this Catterpillar Bo- 
dy are pellucid , they fight defperatly together fome 
times j the Author left no further. 
We have MOW done vpith all the greater forts of SmoothCzt- 
terpillars, as well which the Author left m perfeU, as the 
more imperfeB Hiftorys^^. Here follow in the nex place, 
the leffer Species of fmooth Catterpillars, and we fhall olf 
Jervethe fame order inthem^whichwe have done in greater, 
that is, firft to range the more perfeB and compleat Hifto- 
rys, where we find Butterfly, and both the Difguifes 
Figured. 
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Number. 54. td.^. 
The Catterpillar, of the ^^th.table Feeds of the leaves 
Ragwort : It is a Black and Yellow colour and fmooth, 
in themonth of it cleaves to Bents or Straws, and 
hides itfelfe in a Ikin, for matter, likeYellow Silke. 
After that I had fed him with the faid herbes S Days, he 
changed the 24t^. of^»^, and lay as dead in that condi- 
tion, untill the 8 of the year following, and then 
came forth a Butterfly partly Black, and partly Read, not 
unelegant, Figured in the r<»^/e •• the Butterfly , retained 
I 3 the 
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