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breathing, for they meet with air enough in whatever place they lye; 
but the Butterflie which is the dam of this Caterpillar, feeks for a place 
like all other infeéts; where there may be fufficient nourithment for its 
Offspring, and there it lays its eggs, by thruiting the fharp part of its 
belly, which is long and prominent, into the chinks of the earth. . 
Thefe Caterpillars, as foon as they are hatched, prefently weave them- 
elves a covering or houfe, from which it can creep to the moft proper 
Place to find food; and by this mearis it is'the better defended from 
Other infects that feed in the fame places, particularly from the voraci- 
Ous fubterranean Beetles, that wander upon the ground, and yet care- 
fully fhun thefe nefits, as Flies do a Spider’s web. hey firlt lengthen 
their hole in proportion to the fize of their body, and as the moifture 
fails, they increafe it to above a foat in length, fixing their webs there- 
to, and lining it; as it were, that it may retain the moilture the longer, 
and be more {trong dnd firm, and at the bottom of which thefe Cater- 
pillars generally lye. 3 : See 
The nippers of thé mouth with which it cats, are dentated, and ges 
nerally by night it proceeds from its burrow to the furface of the earth, 
in fearch of food, and when it fails, it works its hole to the next place, 
that the food may be always near it. It grows to the length of a man’s 
thumb, and in Afay its Aurclia changes into a Butterfly, which is of a 
filver fhining colour; marked all over with very {mall black {pecks, and 
thefe are fometimes black marks or {pots; which feem to be made up 
Of fimall fpéecks. ‘Che undermoft wings are the whiteft, and the head 
is of a dun colour, with feelers on the fides, ftanding at right angles. 
The hinder feet are the longeft, and are armed with prickles, on acs 
count of the roughnefs of the earth; where it is to lay its eggs. 
' : Infe&ts of this kind of other atitlors; are, 
t. The Tipula with whitith wings, and is the moft beautiful of this 
Kind ; it has a body that is oblong and flender, of a greyith-brown co- 
lour, and acloven tail. The legs are long and flender, the head larges 
and the eyes like net-work; the wings are large and very beautiful, and 
they have a brown line running down the outer fide, from which pro- 
Ceeds another fmaller towards the other fide; between thefe there is a 
large {now-white fpot. Tt is called by Ray the greateft Tipula with 
large wings, vatiegated with brown and white. 
2. The painted Tifula has a long flender body, beautifully varie- 
Gated with a deep glofly black, and a bright yellow, and the breaft is 
alfo of the fame fine black, {peckled with yellow. The wings are large 
and brownith, with difky veins, and an obfcure {pot on each, towards 
' the edge; but the legs towards the top, are yellowith. It is called by 
Ray, the beautiful Tipula with a black back and fhoulders, and a faf- 
Ton-coloured belly. 
3. The Sea Tipula is very like a Grat, and has an oblong brown 
Ody, with a large beautiful green breaft; the feelers of the male are 
athery, and of the female fhaggzy. It proceeds from a long flender 
“Stight-red worm, compofed of twelve joints. it lives in the fea, in 
tlayey or fandy cafes; of a great length. _ sees 
4. The Tigula with wings beautifully variegated with brown. 
5. The Tipula with whitifh wings, with a brown line on the edges. 
<6, The Tipula with whitith wings, with a few white {fpots. ; 
7: The Tipula with grey wings, mapked with black Haes and {pots. 
The : 
