This is bis ôpiftiofi s but if l am to believe federal ocular wit-
nêffes that have Teen this Worm rriftatttly, when it fell black on
the top of the fnow, and have feifi it come at'Once, together
•with the feow, ftotn the fnô^ry sky j the reft feems dubisi&s *,
All' that I have farther to fey. 1% that, in the- year 1731^ many
fields in France Were vifited with the fame Worm-plague,.according
to Monf. ReaùmarVàecôuflt, which well deferves to be
introduced here ■; Files Æ s chenilles a. douze jambes) nous .ont
pourtant appris en 1735, qu’elles doivent etre mifes au rang des
chenilles les plus ©àpaWês de iïôbs -faire du triai, Depuis«ifes derniers
jëufs de Jùiîï; Jïtfqy:'4 ;I| fin de Juillet, il a paru on grand
nombre de chenille« vertes, telkisfqhe celles que nous avcsns décrites
cy--défias. Mais il a paru encore beaucoup plus de chenilles,
qui, comme les precedentes, n’àVûiejît-rjue doitze jambes, 8c que
quatre interraediates, dont le fond d#»Ê®|ldü-r du corps etoit un.
Verd plils brun» Le Verd de-quelques-unes droit fur le noir,
&c. Il n’eft pas aife de fe rèprefêntet k qaantit© de ces chenilles,,
qui a paru cette aniie© aux environs de Paris juiqu’ a tours en
Auvergne, en Bourgogne, 8tc. Éftes ont commence par attaquer
JesTegumes y elles ont faMge tsrefciiii trias- les-jardflK potagers
des environs de Paris, appelles Marais, a üft tel .pQ'fotlaqqfon
n’y voyoit aa plus -que des #ag8*ea^~de teïspfantes
n’avoieilt phïs que des tiges Sc des cotez de fedifies, &e. Dans
quelques pays Ces chenilles font -attaque" les avoine^ Monf. de
Nainvillier ©crevit a Monf. du Hamel fou frere, qu’elles eammen-
coieèt a les -manger aux environs de pluvieux, -âtc. En Auvergne
& Bourgogne 'elles fe font attMfee®*3ffix chanvres ©tutor® trop
jeunes, ou trop ©ïoignes de fe iïatu«at®y;lcc» Mémoires poïkforvir
â l’biftôire d®s Ififedbes, Tom, ii. P. ifeijj. •
be any Comfort in what is called folfowdbff^kig, then, we f e
that France, fo highly favoured otherwife by nature, hpj in this
refpeft, not any preference. One thing may ftill- be added from
the learned Hr. Ole Tideffiand, dean- here in Bergen, his Account,
viz. That -in Steokke pardh, in the county of Jarlsberg;
after they had put up publick prayers in the church againft thefe
pernicious worms, they were feen to gather in great heaps, and
crawl to the nèafeft waters, and drown themfelves ; and from
that time there was not one found.
* Woni}sŸîn and with the fnow appears very ftrapge, .particularly if we’pbferyp
'thëîr fubfiI't5bdrps‘not fcfrméâ to bear the leaft pPlcl,
or lâÿs tiiemiii a ftafe of infeniibility. See,- in the mean time, ’ Ariftot. Hift. iAlnimal,
Li v,'-pnf§). UlyflT. Aldrpvand. de Infeét. E. vi. c.-j^- Th. BarUiolin. ifiiviS
aiedk. c. g , Ewerhard. Hajppelii Mupd. Mirab. Tom. x. L. il. c, ‘7’, '
S E t T. IX.
Of the -CaterpUlar-kkid there are fame fmall ones that are found caterpm«-. ;
iii houfosi' ttjxd are called M#l, that i£, Moths j they fpoil d e a th s:
o-thers live in fields and gardens, where they are known by the
fia-ftie of Raai Qrm, and do a yaft deal of umfchief; otheri
five -on the trees, and daaaage :fhé fi'uit :;wejh,avê them here
in-, -great ’variety* and worthy to fall-under-Reaumur’s examination,
What in this place is to be; obforved as -the country’s peculiar
property, is, firft, th at th efe^d fm s p^rticularlyTo^iquir'Nèiy
way. hawcfiorn-- trees, where their* web is found' fixed fometimes
like a fiae gauze; fo that it 1 foams they are fatisfied with the *
leaves of this ftirub, for want of mulberry leaves; and then the
Butterflies, which afterwards come forth from- their Nymphis, Butterflies,
are not only of various colours and glofs, as in other-places b u t
there is formed here one very rare and peculiar fort, which is
quite blue ; -of which a friend of mine fent a pair very • lately -to
Dopenhag^is: # h é p a t in the rare coileéHon of Infodis which -his
excellence, the focret conference coiinftllor, oount Rabe, has begun^
and is -deteeminfed to enlarge. I
- ijBees, Bier, do not generate here :-.our Summers are too mort
for them, but yet Humihle-hees, and -other ;flying In&dls, are
viery frequent* We have common Eliési .btrge -and ftnali, blaökyFiieB.;
grey, and brown, with jo t te d and fixiped wings, - They are all
leen here, particularly in the Autumn, in fuch quantities that
they are ivery troublelbme an the houles, , And we -have large knd
foaall iGnats much more numerous; which/with th e ir1 b-UzzingGnate;
and ftangihg, aw-ake-the fleein g : they would be irdufferaM^, «
they were oat drove away by fiuoaking the bed-chamber,
>) We have particularly a fort of large griat, called Mehènk,
which gives Jhe moft trouble. Ol. Magn.' ^rfêrves, L.- xix. c.
35. th a t when t h é -death wind blows in Winter, there comeb
forth from the earth, fÊqm. under the ihow, vaft quantities df
finall Gnats, that fwarm mightily a b o u t,. till thq north-uyind ,
blows, which kills th em; but they revive, or come to life
* L a prodigiéüfè vafietó des-formes Öes-dijïfcfentes.claflfis & de dïffb-'
-reas jgenres, offre uh graad TpëÊhaiele a fcait conf^dprer: 'Qüëllfe Variété' dans
la figure de Gofo'^ dans'Sfe notóbrè-^'ïlsn^ dans ;lëur. ariangtmént «
;dans la-figure & ftruS^^'dè#ÉOT^idSht *les' dhesvfofc: Uê|:efpPeés.de■ ga£$s dpnt
dés autres forit'iraweités de poufijerej'^'ngures regt}fieréè' & jaijrah^èes, cpttijre 4^s
■ tuileis. fAunps ailes ont des étuis, dans ftl^upbelles <fe uernient' le jSip^föiiV&it
par art.-Reaumur L . ’C .’T . L p. i. p . -17. « „T ' j
again.