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the otherYellow, on the hinder part of the Body they 
look like F eathers, but all is Hairy 5 it changes its fkin with 
^reat anxiety, wiping its fweaty Body with the Fether- 
like tufts : all the Day,after thelhifting ofitsfkin,itrefts 
without foodiandall its body is very tender and Toft. 
After it had cleanfed it felfwell, it change the 00th. of 
■ and abode in it untiil the ^oih. of the fame Month, 
and then came forth a wretched creature, neither But- 
terfly, not Catterpillar : the reafon of the defecft was, 
that it abftained from meat before its time, its Body not 
being arrived to that perfefiionjrequifite to its change. 
the Authors veords mufi be favourably interpreted, for 
it is plaine in the F able, that the Animall veas a Butter- 
fly 5 hut as he well notes a Jlarved thing j many of which 
I have had, wh)f Wings were yet imperfeCf, or at leaji not- 
in a condition to be expanded. 
Number. 80. 
tab. 
The Catterpillar of the 8 ot/ 5 . table, is found about the 
Sand hills, along the Seafhore, where it feeds of various 
Herbs bu ' I could not find one Herb that it wou'd eat off: 
upon the back of it grows FiveBunches/»f hair, two upon 
the head like Hornes, and one upon the T aile , and out of 
thefe Bunches grows fome Haires longer then the reft, as 
ornaments ; I forthwith defigned this Catterpillar,hec3X& 
it haftened to changed, making a web for it felf ofits own 
Hair. 
It changed the 10/^. of jfa/y, and the 8/^.of Augufi 
came forth a Butterfly, which as fooii as borne hid ( as it 
were) its eyes with its fore feet, as not being yet able, 
to endure the light. 
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