# The English moths and butterflies

Author: Wilkes, Benjamin, -1749

Genre: Category: Science - Biology

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73622

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+English+moths+and+butterflies+Wilkes&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The CATERPILLARS belonging to this Chapter have six Hooks or Claws before, eight Feet in the middle, and some have, and some have not two Holders behind. Their Bodies are composed of twelve circular Joints, or Rings, conjoined by a common Membrane, which they are capable of contracting or expanding. When they would move along, they dilate the muscular Skin that separates the first Ring from the next; they advance the first Ring to a certain Distance, and then, by contracting and expanding the Skin of that Part, they move the second Ring: the same Method moves the Third, and so the whole Body marches in Succession: the Motion of their Feet and Claws corresponding with and assisting the pro...

## Chapters

- [PART I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-english-moths-and-butterflies-73622/chapters/1/index.md)
- [BOOK III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-english-moths-and-butterflies-73622/chapters/3/index.md)
- [BOOK II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-english-moths-and-butterflies-73622/chapters/2/index.md)