l8o NATURAL HISTORY.' 
but by a fmall net of gauze, or filk, upon i 
wire, placed at the end of a light wooden 
handle. 
'What a feene of wonders does not the but- 
terfly difplay ! Its eyes of net work ; its 
wings befpriiikled with a farinacious dull, 
of which every grain is a tile laid over a ve- 
ry fine net of gauze ; and the infinite variety 
of form, colour, richnefs, and beauty, of 
its embellifliments. Tender it fo wonderful, 
that the ladies of China are faid to fpend 
their whole lives in the ftudy of this incom- 
rable infe£t. They inclofe, in a box filled 
with fmall flicks, a number of caterpillers, 
ready to fpin their bag ; and when they hear 
the fluttering of the butterflies wings, they 
releafe them into a glazed apartment, filled 
with flowers. 
In order to give our young readers as clear 
an idea of infedls, in their worm and cater- 
piller flate, as the limits of our plan will 
allow, we have felcdled fix as the moll 
beautiful and curious we could find, in 
Dr. Lifter’s Latin treatife on this part of a- 
nimal nature. 
