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former rife immediately, and fuddenly fly into 
the air; but the others, before they can fly 
away, make a noify and tremulous motion with’ 
their wings. This we obferve alfo in other 
creatures, which, after they have refted fome 
time, are obliged thus to prepare themfelves 
for flight. I have given the true figure of the 
Tinea or Moth of cloaths, in Tab. XLV. fig. 
xxx. to which is fubjoined in fig. xxxtv. of 
the fame Table, another kind of Moth, gene- 
rated from a Worm that goes in its theca or 
cafe. And in Tab. XLIV. fig. xx. I have 
delineated a third Moth, produced from the 
leaf of an alder-tree. Finally, I have deli- 
neated the honey-comb Moth in Tab. XXVI. 
Hominy: 
= can likewife thew in my collection that 
fpecies of Butterfly, the male whereof ‘is 
winged, but the female without wings : this 
privilege of the male is very fingular and re- 
markable in this fpecies. I have likewife ob- 
ferved, that the males of the Ants live free 
from labour, and have alfo four wings. Among 
the Bees the male has likewife this preroga- 
tive ; it is difcharged from all care of nourifh- 
ing the young, and feems to be appointed by 
nature for generation only, not for nurfing : it 
is for this reafon probably that this crea- 
ture’s life is fo fhort ; and for the fame caufe 
we obferve, that when the time of generation 
is over, thefe males are murdered by the work- 
ing Bees. I preferve two kinds of males and 
females of the Butterflies, juft now mentioned; 
ObMNT ENS GC's: 
the former of which have larger eyes than the 
latter: this we likewife obferve in Bees, Ants; 
the Ephemeri, and other infe@s. The fe- 
male of the Brafil Caterpillar that eats wood, 
is likewife without wings ; this appears to me 
plainly, from its Chryfalis which I preferve in 
my collection. I have likewife a fecond {pe-= 
cies of Butterflies, whereof the male only is 
winged : It was taken in France; and I have 
reprefented it in Tab. XXXII. fig. vit. 
I can in the next place fhew fome Butterflies, 
the wings of which are formed like feathers. > 
Indeed we are to obferve, that all the colours 
and different reprefentations; which conttitute 
the {plendid pride of the Butterfly’s wings, 
confift only of little feathers, differing among 
themfelves with inexpreflible variety of con- 
ftruction : this will be made manifeft, when 
we fhall treat of the manner, whereby thofe 
wonderful protuberances of the wings are 
formed in the Butterflies, and, with many 
other curious incidents, {hall explain that moft 
delicate increafe of the wings. Finally, I-can 
likewife thew the {mall Butterfly, which al- 
ways flies in a ftraight line, having an oblong 
tail for that purpofe ; and therefore it does not, 
like other kinds of Butterflies, defcribe by its 
motion an oblique and unequal courfe in the 
air. Of this opinion is alfo the very learned 
Arnoldus Senguerdius, who, in his phyfical 
exercifes, affirms, that the tail may have power 
to give an even, or uneven motion to thofe 
creatures. We add here, 
Cra, 
An example of the fecond /pecies or method of the third order of natural changes, 
which I call the Nymph-Chryfalis, or Aurelia, exhibited in that Species of the 
nocturnal Butterfly, or Moth, whereof the male is winged. ; 
ae Tas. XXXIII. No. I. 
“i HE Caterpillar of this nocturnal Butterfly, 
or Moth, lying in its firft coat or fkin, 
which is called the ege-ftate, and is reprefented 
to the life. The firft figure exhibits the egg 
magnified. 
No. II. The fame egg, or rather the hard or 
indurated fhell of that ege divided into two 
parts. A microfcopic delineation of this is 
again exhibited in the fecond figure. 
No. IH. The Caterpillar of this Butterfly 
having attained its full fize, it is very worthy 
of regard, on account of its wonderful form. 
Behind its head are feen, Tab. XX XIII. No. 
NI. a. four bundles of hairs, like fo many 
cloaths-bruthes, clipped even at the tops: thefe 
are of a white colour inclining to yellow. In 
_ the fore part, near the head, are alfo two pro- 
minent bundles of hairs, which refemble 
horns. Thefe are hairs, 44. of a black colour, 
and confilt of long, ragged, and uneven hairs ; 
the tops whereof are adorned with a kind of 
branching feathers. On the two fides of the 
breaft are feen, cc. two other feather-like bun- 
dles of hairs, placed very beautifully like oars. 
Juft before thefe are placed, dd. two fuch other 
hairy oars; which, however, are much infe- 
rior in the beauty of their ftru@ure, to the fes 
cond pair juft now defcribed, and are of a yel- 
lowifh white, being almoft of the fame colour 
with the four former even-clipped bruthes of 
the back. The whole fkin of this Caterpillar 
is here and there beautifully variegated with fine 
colours, which are conftituted, ce. by certain 
fealy and fhort-haired little feathers, among 
which, the longer and loofe hairs are every 
where interfperfed ; whilft, in the mean time, 
the fkin itfelf is obferved to be of a bright red 
colour. At the hinder part of the body, this 
Caterpillar has a fuperb feather-like tail, which 
refembles the antenne or horns of infects, in 
form and colour. ‘This creature has fixteen 
feet; the fix fore ones are placed near the 
head under the thorax ; eight are placed under 
the middle of the bedy, and the other two at 
the end, juft above the tail. Thefe Caterpil- 
lars arefound plentifully in the gardens of Hol- 
land, living among the leaves of plum and 
cherry-trees, and in feveral other places. 
No. IV. This figure exhibits the manner, 
wherein this Caterpillar has wound itfelf up, 
aaa. and fettled itfelf quietly in its web. It 
begins in that to be fomewhat immoveable 
about the thorax ; and it is to be obferved, that 
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