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t^ot withfiandingihe epiniott ^/Ariftotlef dePlantis ) 
gnd lately o/Signior Read* eonctming flmtigmm$ 
Animals. 
f» the next place m Jball range the HiRorysofthe leffir 
Smooth Catterpillars 5 vphich are imperfe&i that is where 
there is a By*birth only^ and no Butterfly Figured, 
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Number, 67. 
The Catterpillar, of the Sjth.TabUi greedily Eats the 
the leaves of Sallows^ there are great numbers of them s 
Alfo thele Ci*#t£T/)i//4r/drinkmuch and longe, elpecially 
any fweet things: If you touch themj they defend them- 
felves moving very fwiftly the hinder part of theirbody, 
this CatterpiUar changed the icth. of Septemhre, 1665. 
and continued fo until 1 the 2 3 of 16^4. And then 
came forth a which lived fafting untill the 30/A of 
the fame month. 
in the very middle of the changes is feen a black Eggs 
to which this owns its birth. 
This is thel^yhxTthofJome Flefti-fly, and onr Author 
is mrj diligent in that he hat here^ once for all,obJht>ed to 
nt, that ^ found, in the very middle of the Chrylalis 
the Eruca, #^e Chryfalis of the Fly j which he calls a blae\ 
Egg : the Catterpillars Chryfalis was undoubtedly Cstr- 
■rion, and then I'ly-blown, 
Humber. 
