192 NATURAL HISTORY. 
The valerian Caterpillar is of feveral kinds, fome of which becomé 
grey Moths, and others brown Butterflies. 
The Caterpillar of the vine, is of two kinds, the one being brown, and 
the other green; they are both flreaked and {potted with black and 
white. That that is brown, changes in Fuly to a bright brown aureliay 
- and continues in this ftate till the next May, when it becomes a beautiful 
Moth, with the head, body, and upper wings of a rofe colour, varie: 
gated with green ftreaks and fpots. The lower wings have each 4 
black fpot, and the eyes are of a yellowifh green. It has a long flen- 
der trunk, of a yellow colour, and curled at the end. It is one of the 
moft beautiful and remarkable of this kind. 
Albin mentions an olive coloured Caterpillar that feeds upon the leaves _ 
_of the vine, and becomes a grey mottled moth, with two white {pots - 
on the upper wings, _ ; = 
The Caterpillar of the vine of Surinam, is brown, {potted with white; 
and there is a black fpot on the laft ring, in the middle of which there 
is a white fkin, that fhines like cryftal, and which rifes and falls’ when 
this infec breathes. It becomes a beautiful green moth, with the ends - 
of the wings painted with red and bluc. : 
Goedard takes notice of one that feeds on the vine, which he calls the 
Elephant Caterpillar, it having a trunk like that animal, but what it 
turns to is not known. : 
The violet Caterpillar is of a dark brown, with a white ftreak of 
gach fide the body, and the head and fore feet are yellow. It turns 
toan aurelia in dugu/, and the next Apri! to a moth, with the head, 
body, and wings variegated with a bright yellow; as alfo with black 
fpots: the eyes are black, and the horns and legs are of the fame co- 
lour. Yhere is another of a pale green, fpotted with yellow, which 
in Fune turns. to a greenifh aurelia, and foon after to a white mothy 
variegated with grey fpots; likewifé the horns and feet are grey. 
‘Che Caterpitar of the holm oak, is covered with exceeding long haifs 
partly black, and partly of the colour of rulty iron, and there are four- 
teen prickles on: the rump, placed in the fame form as the petala of the 
flower of a red daify. It turns to a reddifh aurelia, which afterwards 
becomes black ; and then turns to an infect like the Flie of the Silk- 
worm, of a blucifh chefnut colour, {potted with black. It has two large 
black tufts on its head, and a fmall one of black filk at the extremit¥ 
of the belly. 
The Caterpillar of the zurfach, a Surinam plant, is large and greets 
and turns toa large Moth, whofe body is adorned with fix round orang? 
colour fpots. It has four wings, and fix feet; and is black, but cur! 
oufly fpotted. Its trunk confilts of two pipes, which are nfed to fuck 
the honey out of flowers; and after it has done, it rolls it up in fuch 4 
manner, that it can hardly be feen. It is not eafily killed, and it lays 
a vaft number of white eggs. This plant alfo feeds a green Caterpil- 
lar, which becomes a white and black Moth, with a double trunk, like 
that of the former. sty 5 
__ The Caterpillar of an anonymous plant, is green, fpotted with whites 
black, and red, and becomes an ath colour moth, fpotted with black 
Merian fays this plant grew in his garden, and yet he could not mee’ 
‘with arly one that knew its name, oases. ee 
