NATURAL HISTORY: 169 
The knot-grafs Carerpillar, is brown and grey under the belly ; in 
Fuly it turns to a bright brown aurelia, and in Auguft toa grey moths 
ftreaked with black. ‘Phere is another that is green, with three yellow 
ftreaks along the body, and feveral black {pots ; but what it turns to ts 
not faid. ‘Where is alfo a third, that is yellow, ftreaked with brown, and 
in September turns to a white moth, adorned with red and brown flreaks. 
The Caterpillar of the rocu. an American tree, is brown, flreaked with 
yellow, and coveted with red hair; it becomes a brownifh green moth. 
_ The Caterpillar of the briar, is of feveral forts, which are as follow; 
the greenifh brown Caterpillar, which turns to 4 beautiful Butterfly, 
variegated with green and brown: the green Caterpillar with a blue 
head, changes to a very beautiful moth, variegated with green and 
brown: the greet Caterpillar becomes a moth, with the upper wings 
green and the lower grey: the hairy Caterpillar is brown and red, and 
changes to a moth, called by the Engli/é peafants the devil’s Gold ring: 
the gn een and yellow Caterpillar, is metamorphofed to a moth, varie- 
gated with white and black: the afh coloured Caterpillar turns to a 
firaw coloured moth. 
The Caterpillar of the rocket, was put into a glafs veffel, and was. 
obferved every night to change its colours fucceflively, it being fir of 
the colour of gold, then blue, afterwards black, and lait of all purple 3 
they were all undulated when the infe& crept along. It had two teeth 
made like fickles, and the rings of its body were fupported on each 
fide with crooked feet. Each ring was covered with hair, which was 
lone in the Jaft, and in the form of prickles. It turned to an aurelia, 
of the fize of a walnut, of a greenifh colour, and pointed at the ends, 
in which ftate it continued a month, and then became a Butterfly of 
the largeft and moft beautiful kind: the extremities of the wings were 
turned upwards like a hook, and the edges were fringed, and of vari- 
ous colours; likewife the wings were fpotted with black, red, and blue, 
which looked like eyes, as fine as thofe in a peacock’s tail. : 
The Caterpillar of the rofe bufh, is of different kinds, fome of whicly 
turn to motlis, others to Flies: thofe that are half green, and half rofe 
coloured, become little brown Butterflies: the bright green Caterpillar 
with white ftreaks along the body, has each ring marked with a white 
freak above, and a yellow fireak beneath ; but what it turns to, is not 
{aid ; but there is another, which had fix feet before, eight.in the mid- 
dle, and two behind, that turns to a brown aurelia, and in uly to a 
bright brown moth, whofe lower wings thine like gold. 
‘Albin obferves, that of the Caterpillars of the wild rofe tree, fome are 
brown, and others green, with a red head; they turn to moths of a 
brownifh black colour. Ov a branch of the dog rofe, there was a fleth 
coloured Caterpillar, with a hump back, that turned to a flefh colour- 
ed moth: there was alfo another that was green, with a white line on 
the back, that turned to a flie, called the black headed Bee Fie. 
HMerian took notice of a green Caterpillar that fed on the rofe bufh, 
with a black head. When it was touched, it let itfelf down by a thread, 
and got up again by the fame. In May it turned to-an aurelia, and 
fourteen days afiér to a fmail Butterfly, that fhone like gold. 
The Caverpillar that feeds upon Tue, Is green, and variegated with 
Ted, yellow, and blue fpots; and it changes to a yellow Butterfly, 
flreaked and enamelled with black, as well on the body as wings. On! 
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