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The Caterpillar of thyme, has the back marked with longitudinal 
Ttreaks of different colours, that is, blue, purple, yellow, red, and 
black; befides which there are many {mall f{pecks. It turns to aurelia, 
like a filk-worm, from whence four Flies proceed, which are probably 
the eggs of the Ichneumon Flie: they are larger than common Flies, 
with blueith heads and wings; but every where elfe of a-purple colour. 
The nightthade Caterpillar turns to a red aurelia at firft, which by 
degrees becomes black, and is transformed to a large Butterfly, which 
makes a noife with its wings like a Bat. It is of a yellow colour, vari- 
egated with black on the wings, back, and belly. On the head, which 
is black, there are two tufts, of a little lighter colo#r ; but the eyes 
are of a chefnut colour, and the trunk black and curled: the fix 
feet are hairy and yellow, and each of them terminate in a hook. 
What this changes to, Redi gives no account. 
The marygold Carerpillar is.of a dark colour, with black lines, and 
the belly of a bright green, with a white line that parts the dark colour 
from the green, it retires into the ground, where it turns to an aurelia, 
_ and then changes to a dufky moth, marked with a white fpot on each 
upper wing: there is another breeds upon this plant, with a black 
back, and the head and the belly of a dirty green, with red {pots like 
eyes: the moth that proceeds from it has two round {pots upon each 
upper wing, furrounded with a white circle, and there is a white freak 
On. their extremity. 
The Caterpillar of the elder tree, is of a bright yellow, with two 
black freaks that run acrofs the back, and three others that run long- 
ways behind. It has black teeth, and changes to a bright brown au- 
relia, which becomes a white moth, flreaked with brown: there is alfo 
a green Caterpillar belonging to this tree, which becomes a bright 
brown moth. 
The Caterpillar of the fycamore tree, is yellow, and covered with 
faffron coloured hair. When difturbed, it draws itfelf up like a hedge- 
hog; it changes to a grey moth. 
‘The Caterpillar of the tabruba, a Surinam tree, is yellow and black, 
and covered with hair, like a brufh. it becomes a fort of Bee, ftreaked 
tranfverfely with yellow and black. 
The Caterpillar of the lime tree, is a very large and beautiful infed, 
of the colour of filk, fpotted on the back with white; but the lower 
Part of the body is of a deep yellow. On the hinder ring there is a 
blue horn, and behind that a yellow fpot. It turns to a black aurelia, 
and feems to be dead till AZay in the following year, and then changes 
to a pale yellow moth, {potted with black. 
The Caterpillar of turnfole, hides itielf in the ground all day, and in 
the evening comes out to feed. It turns to an aurelia in May, and in 
June the year following, becomes a Butterfly, with the letter O on its 
Wings. 
The trefoil Caterpillar is red and yellow, and turns to a whitifh Moth. 
The Caterpillar of the afpen tree, is of a golden yellow colour,, and 
changes to an ath coloured Moth, with the extremity of the upper wings 
St a copper colour. ; . 
The Caterpillar of the purple tulip, though mentioned by Merian, is 
Not defcribed ; but ir turns to a Moth, whole upper wings are reddith, 
&nd the lower, with the reft of the body grey. ; 
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