xl A. Short Explanation of the T ABLES. 
¢ ¢ Two other feathers, like bundles of hairs, 
placed on each fide of the breaft like oars. 
dd Two more, like the firft, but not fo beau- 
_ tiful; of a yellowifh white. 
ee Shorter feathers like hairs, placed all over 
the fkin, and interfperfed with other longer 
ones. 
J The feather-like ornamented tail. 
IV. The fame Caterpillar wound up in its web, 
fhortly to undergo its change. 
aaa The web, in which the Caterpillar has 
fettled itfelf. 
4 The third and fourth ring {welled by the in- 
creafe of the limbs within the Butterfly. 
V. The fame Caterpillar changed into a Chry- 
falis, or Aurelia, which in a little time is to 
become a male Butterfly, the limbs of the 
Butterfly that is by and by to be produced, 
are now vifible, tho’ obfcurely. 
VI. The male Butterfly produced from the 
former Chryfalis, in which may be feen 
aa Its elegant horns. 6 Its fmall body. 
cc Its large wings, which are wanting in the 
female. 
FE I Ga |, 
The “egg of the nocturnal Butterfly, fhewn in 
No. I. 2” tts natural fize, 1s bere reprefented 
as magnified. 
| ele ne! 
The egg, broken open by the infect that fuck in 
it, reprefented as magnified ; which was fhewn 
of its natural fize, No. II. 
FOL Ggeil. 
The web quitted by the Catepillar, with the per- 
foration it makes when about to be changed into 
a Butterfly; fhewing how the eggs are glued 
in it, which are laid by the female Butterfly, 
which in like manner are afterwards to pro- 
duce Caterpillars, 
FIG. IV. 
The Chryfalis of No. V. reprefented, exhibiting 
all the external parts of the future male Butter- 
fy: namely, 
a The two eyes in the head, under which 
ftretched againft the thorax is difcerned the 
probofcis or trunk. 
b The antenne, or horns, removed from their 
natural fituation. 
cc The fix legs, alfo removed out of their 
proper place, that they may be the more 
eafily viewed. 
dd Two pair of wings. 
e The wings of the abdomen. 
Pa Gow. 
The Chryfalis of the female Butterfly, exhibiting 
again all its limbs and parts, as conftruéted in. 
their natural fituation. 
Pr Gt, 
The female nofurnal Butterfly, reprefented No. 
IV. but far more imperfe in its limbs and 
parts than the male. 
a @ Its two lefs elegant horns. 
6 The thick and diftended body. 
c¢ The four thort wings, or which may be 
rather called imperfeét rudiments of wings, 
FIG. VU. 
The female, with her belly diftended with eggs. 
a The fkin upon the back cut open and turned 
backwards, to fhew the great number of 
eggs with which the belly is filled. 
TAB. XXXIV. 
The Hiftory of Day-Butterflies. 
PAG IT, 
The “Caterpillar from which the common Dutch 
day Butterfly is produced. 
@ Its external form, which is as it were fet 
thick with prickles. 
4 Three of the foremott of its fix legs. 
¢ Four of the middlemoft hinder legs. 
d The two hinder legs. © 
Piel .G.. 1k | 
The Caterpillar magnified, exhibiting its thirteen 
annular divifions. 
1. The firft annular divifion or ring, confti- 
tuting the head, in which 
aa On each fide are fix eyes. 
466 The antenne or horns. 
cc Theteeth, placed under and near the lip. 
d The little prominent particles, the middle 
moft of which is formed like a papilla or 
nipple. 
2. Another annular divifion, with its briftly 
hairs, which is called the firft point of re{pi- 
ration, or breathing hole. Cd 
e Another of the firft pair of legs, with its 
joints, having a crooked claw at the extre- 
mity. i 
34 The third and fourth ring, which have no 
breathing holes. The third ring, with the 
two larger ones alfo is befet with {mall 
prickles, of which only thofe in the fourth 
are reprefented. 
f Another of the fecond pair of legs joined 
under the third ring. 
g Another 
