The English moths and butterflies
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- THE English Moths and Butterflies: Together with The Plants, Flowers, and Fruits whereon they Feed, and are usually Found.
- TO MARTIN FOLKES, Esq; President, And to the COUNCIL and FELLOWS of the ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.
- THE PREFACE.
- INTRODUCTION.
- Of Moths and Butterflies in general.
- On the different Manner of laying their Eggs.
- Of the Eggs.
- Of Caterpillars.
- Of the Food of Caterpillars, and their Manner of Feeding.
- Of the Forms of Caterpillars.
- Of the Change of Caterpillars into the Chrysalis State.
- Of the Chrysalis or Aurelia.
- How the Aurelia or Chrysalis is secured.
- Of the FLY.
- The Distinction of Moths and Butterflies.
- Concerning the Food of the Fly.
- The Enemies of Moths and Butterflies.
- An Account of those Places where some Gentlemen of the AURELIAN SOCIETY Have been used to collect Caterpillars, Chrysalides and Flies, In the following Months of the Year.
- MARCH.
- APRIL.
- MAY.
- JUNE.
- JULY.
- AUGUST.
- SEPTEMBER.
- In order to oblige such persons as may be desirous To make a COLLECTION of MOTHS and BUTTERFLIES, Though unacquainted with the Manner how, It is judged proper to lay down the following DIRECTIONS.
- THE Names of the Subscribers to, and Encouragers of, Mr. WILKES’s Attempt towards a Natural History of English Moths and Butterflies.
- BOOK I. PART I.
- CHAP. I.
- Class I. Such Caterpillars whose Bodies are Smooth.
- Class II. Caterpillars having little Hair.
- Class III. Caterpillars having much Hair.
- CHAP. II.
- Class I. Caterpillars having eight Feet, two Holders, and six Claws or Hooks, and having Protuberances.
- Class II. Caterpillars which are hairy, having two Holders, four Feet, and six Hooks or Claws.
- CHAP. III.
- Class I. Smooth or naked Loopers.
- Class II. Hairy Loopers.
- CHAP. IV. Caterpillars shaped like Wood-Lice.
- Class I.
- CHAP. V. Of Moths, whose Generation is not yet known.
- Class I.
- BOOK II.
- CHAP. I. Caterpillars producing Flies, which resemble partly the Moth, and partly the Butterfly.
- Class I.
- BOOK III.
- CHAP. I. Caterpillars, whose Bodies are Smooth, producing Butterflies.
- Class I.
- Class II.
- Class III. Caterpillars armed with Spikes.
- CHAP. II. Caterpillars shaped like Wood-Lice.
- Class I.
- CHAP. III. Of Butterflies whose Generation is not yet known.
- Class I.
- INDEX to the FLIES.
- INDEX to the PLANTS.
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