NATURAL HISTORY. 155 
hair fell off. In fhort they feemed extremely fick and weak, and con- 
tinued fo till the fourth of 4ugu/l, when fix of them calt their {kins a 
third time, and became black aurelias, and looked like children in 
fwadling cloaths. The next day in half an hour’s time, they turned 
to Butterflies, but laid their eggs foon after, to the number of forty, 
which were of a pale blue, and had a little black {peck in the middle, 
The honey-fuckle Caterpillar, in Auguff turns to an aurelia, which 
does not change to a Butterfly till une the next year. There are other 
Caterpillars of this plant, that become Flies. : 
The dog-grafs Caterpillar in Fuly {pins a green web, and turns to a 
grey aurelia, from whence a Butterfly proceeds in Augu/l, of a dark 
orange-colour, that lays green eggs. 
The cabbage Caterpillar does a great deal of mifchief among thole 
plants, in dry feafons, but it is killed by the rain. It cafts its tkin 
twice a year, and turns toa white Butterfly. It is of a pale green 
_fpotted with black, and on the back there is a yellow fpot or ftreak 5 
but the belly is marked with {mall yellow fpecks. It turns to an aurelia 
in September, and in April turns to the white common Butterfly. 
When cabbages are young and tender, they are devoured by a Ca- 
terpillar of a meadow-green colour, with a yellow ftreak running along 
the back, and on both fides of each joint there is a fmall yellow. fpeck. 
When it arrives at its full growth it turns to a pale brown aurclia, 
fpotted with biack, and fourteen days after it changes to a {mall But- 
terfly.. Albin {peaks of a green cabbage Butterfly, with a yellow line 
on each fide, which he found on a cabbage-leaf in June, that turned, 
to an Aurelia in Fu/y, and in the fame month became the great com- 
mon white Butter fly. 
The colly-flower breeds a yellow Caterpillar {potted with green and 
black, and it devours the leaves, leaving nothing but the ribs, 
Goedard affirms, he.has known fome colly-flower Caterpillars turn to 
very ugly Butterflies, and others to Flies. Red? gathered great num- 
bers of thé cabbage Butterflies, that were of a greenith colour, marked 
with white and black, and put them in boxes. In four days time, 
they all became immoveable, after they were fixed to the top of the 
box. They left fmall yellow eggs behind them, which in March fol- 
lowing, turned to fmall blackith Flies. Valifniert difcovered that thele 
Were very fmall filken cods, made by fmall infects that teed on the 
bodies of the Caterpillars. The above Caterpillars {tuck to the box by 
the means of a filken thread which came from the extremities of their 
. tails; there were alfo two other threads on their fhoulders, and a fourth 
that proceeded from the under part of the mouth. hey lay all the 
Winter in this condition, but in AZarch they left their fkins flicking to 
the box, and came out in the form of Butterflies, of a bluith-green 
colour, with two black round {pots on the upper wings, and two imal! 
Yellow horns on the head. 
The Carerpillar of the citron-tree, is of a beautiful yellow, but red 
towards the belly ; on the tail there is a double ftreak in the fhape of 
aflame. Its thread is a kind of filk, more fhining, and in greater 
abundance than that of Sik-worms; and if thefe Caterpillars were 
Common, they would yield more filk than Silk- worms themfelves. It 
ecomes a very large noéturnal Butterfly, of a red and golden colour, 
With white fircaks on all the wings, on each of which there is a bright 
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