156 NATURAL HISTORY. 
iranfparent fpot, that is furrounded by two circles, the one within, and 
the other without; one of which is white, and the other black. 
Merian {peaks of another infe& that feeds upon citron-leaves, which 
is quite different from a Caterpillar, and its feet are covered with a 
fkin, with which it adheres thereto. This is a very numerous infed, 
for when it touches the fkin, it certainly inflames it; however it changes 
to a beautiful no@urnal Butterfly. 
The leaves of the hazel-tree feed Caterpillars of different kinds, one 
of which is of a faffron colour, and turns to a no@urnal whice Butter- 
fly, flreaked and variegated with brown {pots. Ray mentions the 
great hairy Caterpillar, with thick tufts of hair, or pencils of a red 
colour, that feeds upon the leaves of this tree. It is of a yellowith- 
green, and produces a fmall green Butterfly. Albin gives the figure of 
« monttrous Caterpillar, which according to Aldrovandus, is of a mid- 
die nature, between a Caterpillar and a Spider. d/bin has another 
beautiful Caterpillar, of a grey colour, variegated with black fpecks on 
the back. It retires into the ground before it turns to an aurelia, and 
alterwards becomes a noéurnal Butterfly. Another turns to a noc- 
turnal Butterfly with wings furrowed like a cockle-thell. There is 
alfa green Caterpillar, which turns to a Butterfly, nearly of the fame 
eclour. : 
‘Lhe Caterpillar found on the leaves of garden-crefles, are black on 
the back. and white under the belly. it has fix black feet before, ‘and 
eighteen behind, that is nine on each fide. In June it fpins a flender 
‘cod, and changes to a brown aurelia, from whence a noéturnal Bute 
terfly proceeds'foon after, {potted with brown. 
he fea-green Caterpillar feeds on the herb by fome called the pea- 
cock’s crelt, and changes to a no@urnal Butterfly, of an ath-colour; 
that feeds on the honey of flowers. 
The dandelion Caterpillar is of a brown colour, and has two forts of 
hairy horns on its head. And on the back there are five tmali tufts of 
hairs, but all the reft of the body is covered with yellow hair. In May 
\t produces a grey Butterfly. 
The Caterpillar of the fleeper, a plant fo called by the French in 
America, is green, ftriped with rofe colour and it has two {mall horns. 
it changes into a brown Butterfly, variegated with yellow. 
_ The eglantine Caterpillar is very flow and idle, for it will fooner fuf= 
fer itfelt to be crufhed to pieces, than run away. It turns to an aure- 
lia in September, and in May following it turns to a beautiful Butterfly: 
There are feveral Caterpillars that feed on the white thorn, one oF 
which has a gilded back, and changes into a Chryfalis, which becomes 
a Butterfly, with black veins. It is of the colour and fhape of the 
large cabbage Butterfly: there is another {potted with white on the 
fides, and the furrows between the legs are black; but the reft of the 
body is of a brownith black; this turns to a nocturnal brown in the 
middle of the wings, and two white {pots on the upper wings, ‘Ther? 
is a third black Caterpillar, with brown {pots, and the rings of a faffron 
coliur. Jt becomes an aurelia in May, and in Ausguft a noGurnal But- 
terfly, of a bright grey colour, There are feveral others, one of which 
is beautifully variegated with different colours, and becomes a noétur- 
nal yellow Dutterfly, with different fpots. Another is brown, and the 
Butterfly it changes to is partly red, and partly yellow. A third is i 
