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into blue Flies with red heads; though there are fome that in February 
are metamorphofed to grey and brown moths, vatiegated with black 
and white. 
Albin {peaks of feveral Caierpillars that feed upon nettles, one of 
which is black, and has the upper part marked with white fpecks, and 
covered with hair. Another iort is alfo covered with hair, and is of a 
yellow colour, but fpotted. It turns to a Butterfly, called by, Ray the 
greater blackifh Butterfly, with wings beautifully adorned with red and 
white {pots. Some call it the Admiral. Another Butterfly fed by 
nettles, is called the Butterfly like the eye of a peacock’s wing, and it 
is named by Moufet the queen of Butterflies. The caterpillar it proceeds 
from, is called by Ray the greater biack Caterpillar, fprinkled with 
white {pots, and befet with black prickles. 
There is another produced by the Caterpillar of the nettle, termed! 
by Ray the lefler Phalema, with oblong wings, variegated with white 
and blue, and yellowifh at the roots.” here is yer an racer: called. by 
Ray the greater Butterfly with large wings, the upper being brown} 
and beautifully variegated with white and red {pots and lines. 
Lifler takes notice of another that never feeds im the day time, for 
fear it fhould be devoured by birds, which produces a Moth, with faf- 
fron coloured wings, adorned with black ftreaks, and two black fpots; 
as alfo red {potsion the upper wings. : 
The forrel Caterpillar is hairy, black, and {potted with white and red: 
It produces a Moth, with the body and lower wings yellow; and the 
head, upper wings, fmall horns, and feet brown, {potted with black. 
The Caterpillar of the pelifade, a plant fo called, in Surinam, is yel= 
low ftreaked with black, and armed with fix prickles. It firft changes 
its fkin to one of an orange colour, with a black round {pot, but {till 
retains its prickles ; fome days after it cafls its fkin again, lofing the 
prickles, and in une it becomes a moth. 
he Caterpillar of palma chrifti, a plant fo called, is of a greenift 
colour, covered with long white hair. It turns to a black Butterfly; 
whofe upper wings are of the colour of brimftone, and the other of faf- 
fron. ‘Ihe fame plant breeds another Caterpillar, of a black colour; 
{potted with yellow, that is thut up in a cafe of dry leaves. It changes 
to an ugly moth, which is very troublefome. 
The Caterpillar of the palm of the downs, an herb fo called in the low 
countries, has two tails, and when it is angered, it fhoots from each a 
red fling. In Sepiember it begins to turn to an aurelia, and continues 
in that [tate till next Zune; and then there come out five fmal] Flies; 
out of five diftiné ceils, which when opened, they had no appearance 
of the fkin, or any part of the aurelia. 
The Caterpillar of the palm-tree is red, fpotted with brown: they 
fpin a fort of bags on the plam tree leaves, in which they lodge in the 
night, going out to feed in the day. They turn to yellow Butterflies; 
fpotted with brown, and are bred in Surinam. There is another little 
hairy brown Caterpillar; bred upon this tree, that turns to a tranfparent 
Butterfly, {potted with black. 
The Caterpillar of the papaw tree, is yellow and green, and becomes 
a moth, that buzzes with its wings. here is another of the colour 
of raddle, ftreaked from the head to the tail with red and yellow; and 
@n the head there is a buckler, of a femicircular form, which fhines like 
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