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that you may fooner pull them in piecesjthen take them ofil 
they catlike a fpreading jyhat. ever Plafit,^J|e it 
Rofes, 8cc. they light on; for the ihoft part you find them 
great and fmall together, they are juft of the, cojoririof 
Columbine leaves ; they fear no weather : touch them and 
they vibrate their tail wonderfully. 
"This Ciirterpi//4r 5 changed the 8#A. oTJum, as Figu- 
red in the Table : And the 2j June, came forth a 
Blackf/y, Figured alfo in the T4& 3 thefekind cf Flyes 
I have often feen fitting upon Bryonie, 
lived two Days without meat. - , , . 
This By-birth is a kind o/'Flefii-fly; and the Chryfalis' 
is the change of a Flefh-fly ; and therefore here is fame 
The CatterpiUar of the yyth.lLahle, Marked a. eats but 
once a Day, and that rparingly, the leaves of SaUaWi znA 
when it has done eatiogjit rowlesup its body in a round, 
HkeaC^» 4 J^e) dog, and then about noon the next day a 
little more food, and then toTeft in the faid pofture : 
this I obferved it to doe (’ and it is a moft wonderfull 
Hijiorji ) untill the laftday oi' Sepember, 1655. 
refted without thepofture of its Body, or mo- 
ving un|ill the 24/A. of O&ober, 1655. I touched its 
body daily wiVh*a little Feather, that I might certaMy 
know whether it was a live or no, and I obferved it a- 
. ‘ live, and at every light touch to move and contraft its bo- 
dy, two whole Years and 24 Dayes, and that with- 
out any food,, or To much as local! motion, I faw no 
efcaic in the obfervation. 
V 
Tab.es^, 
Number. 77. a. 
