The English moths and butterflies : $b Together with the plants, flowers, and fruits whereon they feed, and are usually found.Wilkes, Benjamin
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The English moths and butterflies : $b Together with the plants, flowers, and fruits whereon they feed, and are usually found.
Wilkes, Benjamin
Butterflies -- Great Britain
_Caterpillars_ producing _Flies_, which resemble partly the _Moth_,
and partly the _Butterfly_.
CLASS I.
SECT. _a._
L. 2. CH. 1. I. CL. 1. S. _a._ 1.
[Illustration: (Decorative letter T)] The BURNET-MOTH. The
_Caterpillars_ are to be found feeding on _Hay-Grass_ about the
Middle of _May_, at which Time many of them go into the _Chrysalis_
State, within such a Spinning as is expressed in the Plate, and which
they make fast to the Stalks of Grass, about a Foot from the Ground.
The _Moths_ fly about the Middle of _June_, in the Day-time, and are
easily taken.
See _Albin_, P. 82. _Rosel_, Cl. 2. Tab. 57. Vol. 1. _Reaumur_, Pl.
12. Pag. 284. Vol. 2. Pl. 2. Pag. 120.
The Burnet Rose.
_Rosa pumila, spinosissima, foliis pimpinellæ, glabris, Flore albo._
J. B.
[Illustration:(Decorative Header)]
BOOK III.
CHAP. I.
CATERPILLARS, _whose Bodies are_ SMOOTH, _producing_ BUTTERFLIES.
CLASS I.
SECT. _a._
CATERPILLARS _without any ~Protuberances~, whose ~Chrysalis~ is
fixed by the Tail, and hangs in an Horizontal Position, by Means of
a Thread fastened round the Back and on each Side, and producing_
SWALLOW-TAIL BUTTERFLIES.
L. 3. CH. 1. I. CL. 1. S. _a._ 1.
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