es 
feeds on Willow, and may be found all the Summer. The Caterpillar and Chryfalis, in the 
Plate, are taken from a Draught by Mr. Rofed, 
See Kofel, Cl, 1. Tab, 1. 
The White Dog-Rofe. 
Rofa arvenfis candida, G. : 
L. 3. Cu, 3. 7 ga ys 2 Cr-3D: Bhat, 
f HE SMALL FRITTILLARY-BUTTERFLY. About the roth of 
April, 1741, I took upon the Ground upwards of one Hundred of thefe Caterpillars, 
in Cain Wood, T gave them to eat a Variety of Growths (which I gathered on the Spot 
where I found the Caterpillars) but they were fo reftlefs and uneafy under Confinement, that 
they feemed in continual Motion, neither would they eat any of the Food I gave them. On 
the 18th of April ten of the Caterpillars faftened themfelves up by the Tail, in order to their 
changing into the Chryfalis State, (the reft being dead or gone away) and on the 3d of May 
following the Flies were bred, ‘This Butterfly is to be taken in Woods and Grafs-Fields ad« 
jacent to Woods, in the Month of May. 
The Variegated Ketmia. 
Ketmta Syrorum Flore variegato, J. R.A. 
( 
L, 3. Cu. x, XII. ) Chea. Sa 72. 
HE GREAT FRITTILLARY-BUTTERFLY, with Sitver Spors. 
_ take this Fly to be of the Clafs under Confideration, On the 15th of Fwy, 1748, 
I had three Eggs laid by fuch a Fly as is reprefented in the Plate at Fig, 1. and on the sth of ~ 
Auguf} the young Caterpillars came forth; which, being examined with a Microfcope, appeared 
to be of the Size reprefented. They were of a Flefh Colour, with Rows of Black Spots on 
each Joint like the Caterpillars of the Emperor Moth, and out of each Spot grew Hairs of a 
fandy Colour, The Eggs were beautifully fluted down the Sides, were flat at the Bottom, 
and had. a glutenous Moifture upon them, which occafioned their flicking faft wherever the 
Fly chofe to leave them, The Caterpillars on this prefent roth of February, 1748-9, feem to 
be alive, but are very fmall, and, I believe, have eat nothing all the Winter, though they 
. ' have 
