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164 NATURAL HISTORY: 
wings are adorned with {mall white ftreaks, and the body is of a bright 
colour, but the eyes are black, and the lower wings thine like gold. 
Albin takes notice of a yellowith green Caterpillar, with a red heady 
that turns to a moth of a red and brown colour. 
The vink Caterpillar feeds on the flowers of that name, and hides 
itfelf in the ground in the day time. in July it turns to an aurelia, 
and in Sepeudber to a Butterfly, before taken notice of. 
The Caterpilar of the orange tree has a yellow ftreak on the bodys 
and each ring has four fpecks of an orange colour furrounded with very 
fine hair. It becomes a moth, with a {pot on each wing, that refem- 
bles tale’ 
Che Caterpillar of bear’s ear, produces a green worm, that fucks its 
body dry. his worm afterwards changes to an aurelia, which be- 
comes an Ichneumon Flie. 
The elm Caterpillar {pins a {mall web or cod, and at the end of nine 
months turns to a Flie. Some call it the Grafshopper Caterpillar, be- 
caufe it leaps trom one place to another. 
Ubere are feveral Caterpillars ted on elm-leaves, one of which taken 
notice of by Albin, is of a bright green, inclining to blue, with white 
lines, and the lower part marked with black {pecks, but the head is red. 
It retires into the ground, where it becomes an aurelia, that changes t9 
a bright brown moth. ‘There is another of an olive colour, adorned 
with red and yellow {pots round its wings. It turns to a black and 
white moth. ‘lhere is ftill another, which is very beautiful, inclining 
to blue, and marked with yellow {pecks. It turns to a Butterfly, call 
ed the great tortoite-fheli Butterfly - 
Goedard atirnis there is a Caterpillar on the leaves of the elm treey 
that fixes itfelf thereon with a thread, in fuch a manner, that it bends 
the two extremities of the leaf, clofing them together with its web, and 
deoving an opening before and behind. When it is touched never {0 
flichtly, it falls down, holding itfelf by a thread, and moves about a8 
fwitt as an eel. here are two forts, one of which becomes a Butter? 
fly, and the other which is larger, produces worms that have killed the 
Caterpillar. Thefe are thirty two in number, and lay each an eggs 
which turns to a {mall Flie. 
‘The {ame author takes notice of another, which wraps itielf up it 
a dry leaf, falling to the ground, and covers it with a web, that fhines 
like filver. It turns to a Flie. : ; 
_ Goedard has {till another, which produces a Flie that is able to Kill 
Spiders, though all other Flies become their prey, and feems to také 
pleafure in it. 1t will break cff all the legs, and then drag it alongs 
carrying it off. : . ; 
There is ftill another, mentioned by the fame author, that feeds of 
elm leaves, and before it turns to an aurelia, gets into ftables an¢ 
houfes among boards. It hangs with its head downwards, and feem$ 
to’ be a round ball when the fkin begins to crack. _ It turns to a beat 
tiful Butterfly. The Caterpillar oj the large ftinking nettle, is of 4 
black colour, and turns to a yellow aurelia, from whence proceeds # 
Butterfly, brown without, and within of a dark crange, variegaté 
with a mixture of black and purple. There are ethers of a bright gree™ 
and others brown; but they are all adorned with white and “black 
freaks, and marly of them ipin'a white web. ‘They at length hig 
