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76 NATURAL HISTORY. ‘ 
the extremity of the lower wings there are two round red fpots, and 
others that are blue, terminated by a hairy violet line. At the extre 
mity of the edge there are two {mall appendages, which look like tails 
to the wings, and on the head there are two horns or feelers, which 
are long, blackith, moveable, and thicker at the extremity, than at 
the root... It dies in four days time. 
The Caterpillar of the willow, is large, and turns to a grey moth: 
the black water willow, feeds a Butterfly with fmall fpecks, which turns 
to a grey moth, that lays green eggs. Another willow Caterpillar 
turns to a grey and red Butterfly, and a third" is armed. with horns; 
and changes in Yudy to an aurelia, which becomes a moth in the April 
following. A fourth is metamorpholed to a flying infe@, and a fifths 
which is half yellow, and half green, becomes a yellow Fie. 
Merian mentions a very beautiful green Caterpillar, fpeckled with 
white, and a white ftreak running acrofs each ting. It turns to an 
aurelia, and the next May to a moth, with head, body, and upper 
wings brown and white, variegated with yellow and black; but on the 
lower wings there are two large black eyes in the middie, furrounded 
with a blue circle; the upper part is of a bright brown, and the lower 
of a rofe colour. It has fmall black eyes, and little horns. 
He takes notice of another that is fmall, and of a bright green, adorned 
with white freaks, which turns toa brown aurelia, and fourteen days af- 
ter to a fmall moth,.of a greyith ath colour, adorned with white flreaks. 
The Caterpidar of the red. willow, is green, and turns to a dark 
brown aurelia, which in Augufl changes to a bright brown moth, with 
wings ftreaked-with brown: the fame tree. breeds another of a-fmall 
fort, that turns to an aurelia, and then to a Flie, whofe body, head, 
and horns are black, with two wings tranfparent, and fix yellow feet. 
Albin tpeaks of feveral forts of Caterpillars found upon the different 
kinds of willows, which are as follow: the green and yellow Caterpil- 
lar, called by Ray the moft beautiful double tailed Caterpillar, and 
which turns to a moth, that the fame author terms the great and moft 
beautiful moth, with large external afh coloured wings, elegantly vari- - 
egated with black fpots and lines: the beautiful green Caterpillars 
whofe moth Ray names the middle fized domeftic moth, becanfe in 
July, Augufl, and September, it comes into hoafes :. the olive coloured 
Caterpillar, which turns to a yellow Butterfly, with wings variegated 
‘with black: the fleth coloured Caterpillar, that becomes a bright yel- 
low moth, with thades and {pots of a darker colour: the green and 
red Caterpillar, from whofe two extremities a Flie proceeds: the yel- 
low Caterpillar that turns toa Beetle: the dark brown Caterpillar that 
changes to a moth, with the upper wings yellow, and the lower of 4 
yellowifh white: the ruddy Caterpillar that turns to a moth, called by 
fome the moth with red lower wings: the purple Caterpillar with red 
and yellow fpots, changes to a white moth, flreaked with black: the 
green Caterpiliar with imall red lines on the back, becomes a whit¢é 
Moth, .ttreaked with black, ; 2 
Goedard takes notice of a Caterpillar of a bright yellow colour, vari- 
egated with a little black, which bears fomething on its head like et 
etcutcheon gules, with a cheveron of gold. It turns to an aurelia if 
Augwi, and in the fame month of the following year, it becomes 4 
ftrong vigorous Butterfly, and yet it lives but two days. | The 
