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Number 4.
Some times I have observed the Changes of Insects to be made into mo••e beautifull Animals; then I ex∣pected; as in the Catterpillar N. 4.
I fed him with Elme leaves, in which he delighted. He hath a very deformed and ugly head, whereas in in most other Catterpillers the head shineth like a Look∣ing Glass.
He purgeth himselfe and beginneth to change into the forme N. 4. The 7th. of Iune, and the 20th. of the same Month came ••orth a most beautifull Butterfly, marked with most elegant colours.
These Butterflyes continue alive all Winter, unlesse other little Animals devour them, or Spiders strangle them in their webs.
Our Author hath diligently observed all alonge, that Cat∣terpillars exactly Purge themselves of all their excrements before they change, and are in the disguise of Chrysalises. We have said that the use of the disguise of a Catterpillar is, to eat a different ••ood, and that which the Butterfly can∣not eat: And therefore it is but reasonable, that the Catterpiller should quite and cleane empty it selfe of all the old food, when it is about to become a new feeder. I am ••oreover conceited, that the change of a Catterpillar is not superficial only, but goes deeper yet, and that the intestines are in some sort changed also, as well as the Organes of the mouth. The inside of the Gutts being indeed an outside too in all Animals.