Number. ^2. ? ■ r 
^ Vjr. 
rhsCatterpHlar ofthe 92c/. 'feeds on the leaves Tab.^^* 
o?Cherry, Pear, Plums, and Almond ttees : I could neve^ 
find the feed it came off: It is admirably beautifull in the , 
variety of colours ? when it is firfl Hatchedj it^ is like a 
little Snail, Glutinous and ihining j then it waxes 
by little and little, untill it cafts it (kin, and then appears 
its colour, and after that it again and again cafts itslkin. 
It changed the ■> 7 d.oiSepemher, in leaves Knit toge- 
ther 5 and the 12 tk oijuly, the Year following, came 
forth a Butterfly Figured intheT^i’/e, 5 it lived, but two - 
Days5 though it had laid 9 Months, and 20 Days in^ji® 
change. 
Number. 02. G. P. i; 
^ rab.23,, 
’Xn^tCatterpillaroUht 8 ^d. Fable, eats the leaves of 
Labrufca, fperhaps BryonieJ although with the fmoak of 
that Herb'i^i/Ve are faid to bs killed: They eat not, as I 
have experienced of the Herb, before its Berryes come, 
and then they feed on the leaves untill the Berries grow 
Red and fall off, and then the leaves feem no longer fit 
tonouriftithem, 
ThisCanerpillar, changed the 24#^. of Septembers it 
continued in its change untill the i ^th. of June, the Year 
following, becaufe Winter came on , and Flowers cut 
of which Butterfly s take their food, began to faile : the 
of June,\ fay came forth a Butterfly, a of Yellowifll 
colour,F igured in the Fable. 
Here the reafon of the Noneruption of the Butterfty 
all winter is, well ajfl^nedj f&he tkewant of pood, and the ■ 
aproaching (old> ^ ‘ N.uni“ 
