#68 NATURAL HISTORY. 
_ Albin {peaks of one that is of a fea-green colour, which turns to 4 
‘Butterfly, called the hair-ftreaked Butterfly. He likewife mentions 2 
black Caterpillar, fpotted with brown, the whole length of the backs 
and ftreaked with yellow. It turns to a moth, with the back and up- 
per wings brown. ‘here is likewife another beautiful black Caterpil- 
Jar. with yellow hair, which Ray calls the large Caterpillar, with longs 
thickfet, hoary hair, variegated with dun and black, and having whit- 
ith lines on the rings. It.turns to a large moth, of a whitifh and dua 
colour, with ample oblong wings, beautifully variegated, the lower- 
molt, of which are reddifh, with black ipots. 
a Albin defcribes fix more, which are, ._ 
The bright green Caverpillar, which changes to a moth, with reddifl 
brown wings. : 
The bright olive colour Caterpillar, that is metamorphofed to @ 
bright yellow moth. 
“ ‘the Caverpillar of the colour of an ozier branch, which turns to @ 
faffron coloured moth, Rees ; 
he hunch-backed Caterpillar, that turns to a white moth, ftreaked 
with black. 
-Yhe green Caterpillar, which becomes a moth, with the upper wings 
partly yellow, and partly white, and the lower of a chefnut colour. 
The dark grey Caterpillar with yellow fpots, changes to a moth, 
whofe females have no wings. : 
Goedard defcribes one that has four yellow tufts like brufhes, on its 
back, and two horns on the head like a fnail; on each fide there are 
two prominences, like oars, one of which is yellow, and the other 
black; and there is likewife a tuft of hair on the ,extremity of the 
body. It changes to a fort of infeét, that is neither a worm nor @ 
Butterfly. : ; 
Redi {peaks of a Caterpillar of an orange colour, fo large, that it 
weighed three quarters of an ounce.’ He was compofed of thirteen 
rings, between each of which there were feveral {mall eminences, of af 
azure colour. Likewife there were two white {pots on each, furround- 
ed with a black line. It {pun itfelf a large cod of the colour of mofs 
which looked more like hair-cloth, than any thing elfe. It became # 
very large Butterfly, near the latter end of April. 
The Caterpillar of the American white grape tree, is very voraciousy 
and beconies a beautiful green and red moth, with ftreaks of a coloury 
inclinable to chefnut; but the horns and trunk, are of the colour Of, 
gold. here is another belonging to the fame tree, that draws itfe 
up when touched, and throw: out a froth ; it turns to a beautiful moths 
{potted with brown, and ftreaked with white, and the trunk is of a gold 
colour. 
” The Caterpillar of the ranunculus, has an orange coloured back, and 
a pale yellow belly ; but the other parts are black, and a little hairy- 
In May they make a cod, which turns to an aurelia, that hangs on # 
leaf, and fourteen days after it becomes a beautiful moth, with the body» 
head, and upper wings black, {potted with red. A few days after 
they lay eggs and die. , 
‘he Caterpillar ot the meadow ranunculus, turns to a black aure- 
lia, and that to a fine Butterfly, with the upper wings of a bright yek 
jow, ipeckled with black, and the lower orange, with black fret 
