#76 ; NATURAL HISTORY. 
The dufky yellow Palmer Worm, is of that colour, from the lead t# 
half way on the back, and then becomes of a white lily colour. On 
the belly there are a fort of Ruds, of a yellowith ath colour. 
The nettle Palmer Worm, has feet of a dull yellow colour, but all 
the reft of the body is black} the hairs are ere@, and terminate in a 
fort of points, which will wound the fingers when touched, cauling an 
itching at firft, and afterwards an intolerable pain. From its ftinging 
in this manner, it has its name. * 
The cabbage Palmer Worm, has a blueifh head, and two raifed yel- 
Tow lines on each fide the body, between which there is a grey {pace, 
fpeckled with black: the hair is of an ah-colour, and fo is the aurelia. 
The hedge Palmer Worm, has a head of a faffron colour, only on the 
fhout there is a whitith triangie: the body is variegated with red, whites 
yellow, and black ftripes, or fpots, placed in no regular order, but the 
hair is of a yellowifh colour. It lives among hedges, and ftrips them 
of their leaves. : 
The lefler hedge Palmer Worm, has a blueith face, and all the reft 
of the body is blue: the hair is of the fame colour as the former. 
- The crane’s hill Palmer Worm, is of a pretty large kind, and is adorn- 
ed with black belts, fpotted with white; fo that at frit fight they ap- 
pear to be of an iron grey: the belly and feet are white, and the {paces 
between the belts or girdles, are of the colour of green leeks. It feeds 
upon weeds, and more particularly the herb called crane’s bill: the 
Palmer Worm, with a variegated body, is from the head to the third 
incifure, of a whitifh colour, like chalk, but the five next followingy 
are of an iron grey, and the three lait of the colour of cerufs : the feel- 
ers confift only of hairs, at the end of the tail there feem to be two’ 
more. Befides thefe, there are four upright tufts on the back, confif- 
ting of hairs, placed in a dentated order. ‘ 
‘The ragwort Palmer Worm, has a head and legs of a dull purple co- 
lour, and the belly of a palith green; but the body is of an unpleafant 
green, variegated with black, yellow, and flame coloured fpots: the 
colour of the hair is the fame as that of the belly. ; 
The hedge-hog Palmer Worm has a body chequered and variegated 
with black and yellow, and it has {pines or thorns that are yellowifh- 
In * beginning of the autumn, they change into an afh coloured 
aurelia. 
The variegated hedge-hog Palmer Worm, has the fore part of the bo- 
dy, as far as the middle of the back, of a yellowifh black colour, but 
the hinder part is of a whitith yellow, and it has hard thick fpines of 
thorns, of a blueifh colour. 
_ The bramble Palmer Worm, is of a blackith afly colour, and on each 
fide there are three palifh yellow furrows ; it is but thin of hair, which 
ig black. 
The horned Palmer Worm, is variegated with green and yellow, but 
the hair on the middle of the back is grey, and the horn is notched. 
. There are other Palmer Worms, that feed upon vervain, hops, lique 
rice, night-thade, the elder tree, the elm tree, figwort, bafil, and dilly 
but as they contain nothing very particular, we fhall pafs them overs 
however we {hall take notice of one, called the ftinking Palmer Wor™s 
“mentioned by Gefuer. It is like the horned Palmer Worm, and has !@ 
{rong afmell, that any one would take it to be venomous, When a 
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