BOOK IL 
PART 1 
The CATERPILLARS, defertbed in this Book, are fuch as produce Moths ; | 
of which, as there is a great Variety, "twas thought proper to range them 
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H E Carerrmrars belonging to this Chapter have fix Hooks 
or Claws before, eight'Feet inthe middle, and fome have, and fome 
chaye not two Holders behind. Their Bodies are compofed of 
» twelve circular Joints, or Rings, conjoined by a common Mem- 
‘brane, which they are capable of contracting or expanding. When 
’ they would ‘move along, they dilate the mufcular Skin that fe- 
}) parates the firft Ring from the next ; they advance the firft Ring 
to a-certain ‘Diftance, and then, by contraéting and expanding the 
¥ Skin of that Part, they move the fecond Ring: the fame Me 
‘thod moyes the Third, and fo the whole ‘Body marches in Succeffion: the Motion of their 
“Feet and Claws correfponding with and affifting the progreflive Motion of the Rings, 
‘Vide Spettacle dela Nature, Dial. 1. e 
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