NATURAL HISTORY. 163 
The Caterpillar of the water melon is blue before and behind, and 
green in the middle. The feet are covered with a flime like a fnail, 
and in Augu/ it turns to an ugly moth. — : 
The Caterpillar of garden mint, is white, ftreaked with green, and 
fpins a fine web, or cod, which turns to a brown aurelia,-and in dugu/t 
to a moth, that fhines like gold. There is another of a yellow colour, 
that changes to a moth of a rofe colour, which quickly dies. Albin 
mentions a green Caterpillar, that feeds upon mint, that turns toa 
Moth, marked with the letter ¥Y on the middle of each upper wing. : 
‘he Caterpillar that feeds on’French mercury, and falk to the 
ground as déad, when the leaves are-ftirred. In dugu/? jt turns to a 
Butterfly that has a fort of a fmall mantle ipread on its wings, which’ 
covers all the fore part of this infect, and ferves both for an ornament, 
and for defence. ( , 
The night-thade Carerpillar is green, and turns to alight brown But- 
terfly, that flies very {wiftly. d/din has two belonging to this herb, 
one of which is of a yellowifh green, {potted with a bright yellow, the 
other of a dark grey, {potted in the fame manner, and with a line of a 
faffron colour. They both turn to moths, of a reddith brown. From 
the bodies of thefe Caterpillars worms proceed, which turn to Ichne- 
nmon Flies. 2 : : 
The Caterpillar of the mulberry-tree, has been largely defcribed un- 
der the name of the Silk- worm. 
The Caterpillar of the mufk plant, is green, ftreaked with black, and 
turns to a white moth. 
The Caterpillar of the myrtle-tree, has a brown head, adorned with 
four red {pots, and a double black whifker, the body is brown, varie- 
gated with fmall red and yellow ftreaks, and one large black flreak 
along the back, on which there are four tufts of yellow hair, and a 
black tuft on the hinder ring, which is yellow on the top. The fore 
and middle legs are yellow, and the pair behind black. Tt turns to a 
fmall moth. Merian fays he has kept fome of them in a box, which 
changed to vile (mall flying infeéts, with a black head and body, and 
legs of a dark yellow. Others which are caught in Friefeland, tarned 
to Flies, and others again to fall yellow moths. ‘There was likewife 
another black Caterpillar, with a tuft of yellow hair on each ring, and - 
On each fide of them a fmall white {peck. It turned to a white moth, 
adorned with fhining black and brown fpecks and fpots. : 
The medlar Caterpillar is yellow, ftreaked with rofe colour, and the 
head brown. Each ring is armed with four black prickles, and the 
legs are likewife of a rofe colour. Tt turns to a beautiful Butterfly, of 
a brownith filver colour, acrofs which there are {hining blue, green, 
and purple ftreaks. On each wing there are three round {pots, of an | 
Srange yellow colour, bofdered with a black circle, and this furround- 
€d with one that is green. <The extremity of the wings is of an orange 
Yellow, with black and white ftreaks. ; 
‘The Caterpillar of the hazel-nut tree is {mall and green, and becomes 
afmali Butterfly; but there are other green Caterpillars that turn in- 
to Flies. There is one that is not fo common, of a green colour, and 
reaked with white, and a white freak on each wing. It {pins a fine 
White web, and turns to a brown aurelia, and afterwards to a fmall 
Moth, with the lower wings, fect and horns brown; but the upper 
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