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ti which it feeds; which is always by night. In Odober it builds a 
ell with dirt and fand, and in Afarch it turns to a Butterfly, beauti- 
fully variegated. : 
‘he rampions Caterpillar, does not change into an aurelia till the 
following year, when it becomes a fmall Butterfly. 
‘The acajou Caterpillar is a native of Surinam, and is hairy, and as 
white as inow, which in March turns to a tranfparent Butterfly. 
There is another of a red colour, belonging to the fame plant; which 
turns to a Butterfly of the colour of wood: : 
The caflava Caterpillar is large and black, with the hinder part of 
the head as red as blood. Thefe Caterpillars do prodigious mifchief 
among the plants called caffava, of which the inhabitants make bread: 
They change to nocturnal Butterflies, beautifully variegated with black 
and white, and the upper part of the body is {potted with orange 
. The chervil Caterpillar is of a {hining green, flreaked with white. 
Tt fpins a flender cod, and becomes a chefaut coloured aurelia, whicti 
— in fourteen days turns to a noéturnal Butterfly: oe 
The Caterpillars of cherry-trees, are of different kinds, that is, as 
Many as there are different forts of cherries. That on the cherry-trees 
with double blofloms, when it is ready to be métamorphofed; {pins ad 
Oval cod, which fhines like filver, and as ftif as parchment. It turns 
to a nocturnal Butterfly. re orig Sees 
The rough cherry-tree feeds two forts of Caterpillars the firft is 
brown, and rolls up the leaves, in which it enclofes itfelf. It creeps 
very f{wiftly, as well backwards as forwards, and when it is touched, 
it defcends to the ground by a thread drawn from its mouth. It {pins 
a white cod, which turns to a brown aurelia, and in O@ober it turns to 
a Butterfly, of a bright brown. ‘The fecond Caterpillar is yellowith; 
and rolls itfelf up in green leaves: It defcends to the earth like the 
former, and gets up again by the thread as fwiftly. It {pins a white 
cod, which in OGober is metamorphofed to a Butterfly, of a bright 
rown. pe : 
_ The great cherry-tree with fweet fruit, likewife nourifhes beautiful 
Caterpillars ; there are ftreaks that run crofs the back, which. feem to 
be bordered with pearls. In uly they fpin a cod, which fhines like 
filver; which changes to an aurelia, from whence in Augu/f proceed 
eautiful nocturnal Butterflies, variegated with black, white, and grey, 
range, and rofe-colours. It feeds another Caterpillar of a fea-greent 
Colour, which changes into an aurelia in the beginning of dugu/?, which 
at the end of the fame month turns into a Butterfly. ‘There is alfo 
another, which is long, and of a yellowifh green, it changes to a fmalt 
Roturnal Butterfly, whofe lower wings are brown, and the upper green, 
88 well as the body, which is adorned with white fpots, and {mali 
Town points. Albin takes notice of two Caterpillars of different co- 
Ours, found upon cherry-tree leaves. One is yellow, marked witix 
‘nes of a deeper yellow, and on.each ring there are red fpots. They 
ave both red heads, but the ring on the neck is yellow. ‘They retreat 
Under ground, where they firft become aurelias, and then nocturnal 
Butterflies, and lay their eggs in the chinks of trees. Some call them 
“oopers, because they bend their bodies in fuch a manner, as to make 
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