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740 NATURAL HISTORY. 
What a fcene of wonders does not the butterfly 
difplay ! Its eyes of net work ; its wings befprinkled 
with a farinaceous duft, of which every grainis a 
tile laid over a very fine net of gauze; and the infi- 
nite variety of form, colour, richnefs and beauty, of 
its embellifhments, render it fo wonderful, that the 
ladies of China are faid to fpend their whole lives in 
the ftudy of this incomparable infect. They inclofe, 
ina box filled with fmall fticks, a number of catter- 
pillars, ready to {pin 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 infects, in their worm and caterpillar ftate, as the 
limits of our plan will allow, we have feleéted fix, as 
the moft beautiful and curious we could find, in Dr, 
Lifter’s Latin Treatife on this part of animal nature. 
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