NATURAL HISTORY. m9 
“a dufky colour, with a red head, and turns to a no@urnal Butterfly of 
a bright yellow colour, with darker fhades, and fpots of the fame. A 
fourth is of a fea-green colour, and the upper wings of the Butterfly 
are of a bright brown, and the lower of a bright yellow. A fitth is 
green, and turns to a nocturnal Butterfly, of a greenifh blue. A fixth 
4s of a blackith brown, and is metamorphofed to a white no¢turnal Bute 
terfly. A feventh is of a deep black, with fpots of different colours, 
and the Butterfly is of a dirty grey; and a ninth is green, which turns 
to a noéturnal yellow Butterfly. 
Goedard fpeaks of one that feeds upon the leaves of the white thorny 
and hides itfelf under them, to avoid the heat of the fun. He had one 
of thefe that cait his fkin three times; but on the twelfth of June turns 
ed to an aurelia, which produced on the fourth of July a beautiful 
white Butterfly. ; 
The barberry-buth Caterpillar is of a golden colour, with a black 
- head, on which the Ichneumon Filie lays its eggs, which become worms, 
that feed on thete fort of Caterpillars. ‘Vhere is another with a green 
back and yellow belly, from whence proceeds a brown Butterfly. 
‘There is another of a blackifh brown, with red {pots, which changes 
toa white nocturnal Butterfly, whofe upper wings are fpotted with 
black. 
‘Lhe maple Caserpillar is of a dark brown, and turns to a beautiful 
yellow Butterfly. 
‘Lhe fennel Carerpillar is green, with ftreaks as black as ‘velvet, and 
{potted with orange, and feelers of the fame colour. It turns to a green 
aurelia, and then to a beautiful Butterfly, of a yellow colour variegated 
with black. 
The Caterpillar of the fweet bean plant of Surinam, is covered with 
black and yellow hair, and turns to a Flie, with brown wings, and the bo« 
dy is {potted with red, green, gold and filver colours. On the fame plant 
there is a white Butterfly, armed with black points at the back, and 
the feet are likewite black. It afterwards turns to a beautiful Butterfly, 
The fig Caterpillar is at firlt green, ftriped with yellow, and after- 
wards orange, with red ftreaks ail over the body, but the head and 
tail are black. It turns to a brown nodturnal Butterfly. ; 
_ There is alfo a large Cererpillar, mottled with various colours, that 
feeds on the leaves ot the fig-tree, and has two orange.coloured horns, 
which are venomous, and caufe fharp pain. It becomes a noéturnal 
Batterfly, variegated with dark brown, green, and filver colours. 
There is alfo a green Caterpillar belonging to this tree, ftriped with 
white, which changes to a nocturnal Butterfly, variegated with yellow, 
white, and grey. 
The rafpberry buth Caterpillar becomes a brown Butterfly, whofe 
“Wings have a whitith round {pot in the middle. 
Lhe ath-tree Caterpillar rolls itfelf up under the leaves, to fhelter ite 
felf from the heat of the fun. One of thefe was obferved to be meta« 
Morphofed into an aurelia on the twenty-fourth of June, and to be» 
Come a fort of a Moth the twenty-fixth of September. ‘The black Cray- 
fith, is a Caterpillar, fo called, belonging to this tree, becanfe the 
hinder part in fome fenfe, refembles a Cray-tith; but the fore-part is like 
@fnail, and it is all over black. It turns to a grey Fie, m 
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