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PLATE CXXIL

Vine, and some other plants, but prefer white ladies bedstraw; theycast their skins several times, and when full fed are some green, andothers of a brown colour. The Caterpillars of the female is a finegreen elegantly marked with black, as represented in our plate; thoseof the male are varied with the same dark markings, but the colour iss dull brown inclining to black in those parts where the females arcgreen.

It possesses a faculty peculiar to a very few Infects, it can protrudeits head and three first joints to a tapering point; or entirely concealthe head and contract the first joints, by drawing them apparently intoits body.

The Caterpillars form a white lpinning among the leaves in August %remains in the pupa state during the winter; the Fly comes forth Majfollowing. They are frequently destroyed by an Ichneumon fly.

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