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 TAB. XLTX. 



PHALjENA 10, 

 corn emperor moth, 



ZEA MAYS. LINN. 



MAIZF, Ott INDIAN CORN". 



Ph. AtUau peflinkornis ali* fla*i»: primoribu* fulmi* ponieii fupra ocello atro pupil)! 



fc linear! ilw* 



IVnlfil* M*£m 



K 4. 419. 



This beautiful kind feeds on the Imliuu Corn or Maixc, a* well a* Dogwood (Crjr* 

 nut), SaflaiVas, &c. 1; fpun tip 2;ili Septcmt>er, appeared on the wing the t/ifi 

 ot Mav, awl continued coming out at different times till the |j»th i>f Auifurt follow- 

 ing. Others that fpun up ?irh July came out 2Atli Auguft. The caterpillar fling* 

 toy fevercly, and enelofts it lei f in a brown web on the leaves* It is not verv 

 common, and b a remarkably tender fly to keep in cabinet*, the rule looner de- 

 caving than any other. When young thefe caterpillars feed manv in a company 

 together* 



We believe no author Hi* noticed (hit intVcl before Fabrjdu*, and llut no figure of it hat 

 )ct been published, though iberc are fonx near it in Cramer, tab, *j-to and %Cs ; thr circum* 

 fUncc of it* having uV (ainc kind of eye- like foot on the under fide of the fore wings, that it 

 ha* on il*c upper fide of the hind one*, t* TCff peculiar. It h proj*rly arrayed by Fabri- 

 citu next to FkiU*xt Ton, and the name of Uf,t t had it not been preoccupied by another 1; *■- 

 dm, would have been an excellent one for thb. 



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