NATURAL HISTORY. 175 
_ Phe dufky Palmer Worm, is of a brownith black colour on the bellyy 
but the back and upper parts are of a dufky yellow, and it has a forks 
ed line on the face, of the colour of whey. 
The reddifh bay Palmer Worm, has the fides of the belly of a greys 
ith colour, and the body is variegated with yellow fpots, which are of 
a deep black colour above : there are hairs like rays proceed from them, 
of a yellowifh colour, which are harfh, and grow to a point from the 
middle. It does a great deal of mifchief among gra{s and corn. 
The grey Palmer Worms all over of that colour, except in the ineifuress. 
fome of which are black, and others white, and there are fpots of the. 
fame colours here and there: the briftles both above and below, are 
placed like the teeth of a faw, and are very rough and ftrong, bnt of 
the fame colour with the body. ; 
The black Palmer Worm with yellowifh hairs, has a fort of pencil or 
each fide the forehead, and another upon the rump, as black as a crow, 
there is alfo hair like wedges on the back, with white roots; but the 
ether parts are blackifh. 
The murrey caloured Palmer Worm, has as it were, feven tufts of 
hair, in the fhape of wedges, on the back. 
The variegated Palmer Worm, have all the incifures of different co- 
lours, and yet there is not one entirely of the fame colour, but there 
is a fort of a filver ftud upon each. : 
The Palmer Worm, variegated with black, blue, green, and yellow 
lines, running longways, feems to have golden {pots between them + 
the hair is very foft, and is of a very pleafant green; but when it be- 
€omes an aurelia it has a purple cafe. 
The green Palmer Worm, is of the colour of a green leek, only the 
incifures are whitifh, and the hair in the middle of a brighter green. 
The hafle Palmer Worm, is all over of a dufky green, except a few 
black fpots, and the horn that grows out of the rump, which is of an 
agreeable rofe colour. It is chiefly met with on the leaves of hafle 
trees: there are two kinds of them, one of which is of a deep, and the 
ether of a pale green. 
The negro-faced Palmer Worm, feems to have an embroidered coat, 
very artificially worked. On the forehead there are two hairy hortisy. 
‘inftead of feelers, and perhaps ferve for the fame purpofe; and there 
are the like upon the rump or tail: the fkin is of all the colours of the 
rainbow, and is variegated with roundifh fpots, of a purple colour, 
which feem like fo many ftuds, running along each fide: the hair thines 
greatly, and ftrikes the eyes pretty ftrongly on a fun-fhiny day. 
Lhe blue faced Palmer Worm, is variegated with white, red, and 
blueifh {pots, furrows, and the hair is of a thining géld colour, 
The black-headed hedge-hog Palmer Worm, has a very black heads 
and a body variegated with dark blue {pots, but the hair is of a thining 
faffron colour. 
The pear tree Palmer Worm, has a head as black as ink, and a body 
furrowed with black, red, and milk-white colours. From the fhoulders 
almoit to the end of the back, there are livid tubercles fpeckled with 
white : the egg from which this proceeds, is of a reddifh bay, as is al- 
fo the aurelia, and the colour of the hair. It feeds upon the buds cf 
Pear trees: there is another of this kind, with only one tubercle ct 
hump upon the back. a 
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