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PHALiENA PROSERPINA. 



BLACK EM FEU OR MOT II. 



QUEKCUS HUHRA. LINK. 

 RED OAK. 



Ph. Aitetm prcfimicorni*, alU rotondati* aigrii: frfrU *Ib4: nuculd fubocciUri nigra. 



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Tin: caterpillar cat* the red oak* and other oak*. One of them in Virginia went 

 into the ground ibe ut «>f July, and came out Mth October. I" Georgia thcJann 

 fj>ccic* buried ilfctf June ii'Ii. ami the fly did not appear lill December tith, after 

 winch oilier individual* kepi coming out from lime to lime lill February loth. 

 The male appear* hv clay, and Hie* toy fwiftly, mounting and ileferndinj;. 'Hie 

 caterpillar llings very lliarplv: when fmall the whole brood feeds together, but they 

 difperfe a* tliey grow* large. 



This Molh in called in America ihc Buck llv, from an erroneous vulvar notion 

 that Imekti breed it* caterpillar* in their head*, and blow ihcm oul of llwir noltriU. 

 'Hit* opinion originated from the Hy coming om in the rutting Icafnn. while the 

 Buck* are purfuiru* llie Doe*. The hunters therefore lake notice of the infect, in 

 order to know the proper fcafon for lltcir fport, which is later in flcorgia than in 

 Virginia, as is the- appearance of thefe tlio. Tlwv arc mueh the moll plentiful in 

 the lad mentioned country. Tlw two caterpillars here delineated are varieties of 

 colour 



A* tbe In-?* of many infrcltdo occiliorurilv Luccd in (be lwny catihc* of thenofc in ini- 

 mils »nd fonxiiinr* even in ihc human lubjccl, ejufiug dreadful difcafc* there, the vulgar 

 notion mentioned by Mr. Al»bot may not akapt be erroneous ; at lea ft fome particular acei* 

 dental fael* of tin* kind may have led lo the general opinion. 



If Fabricius lu*l Iwi acquainted with ihc above liiftory of tin* fneric*, how well might 

 he lute called it thou! Yet die name he ha* given (infteadof the unmeaning one ol M„jj)xt 

 fo appropriate, that none could wirti i( othentife. It reealUthc idra of a fair llon-er which had 



■ »- bj jkmip Di* been puVml/ 



now become a* grilly as the grim monarch of the internal icvion* lumlelf* 



Cranxi prme* to be wrong in taking the figure in Drury for the fcnulc of this fly. Both 



theft figulti rejxrieut the male. The jKiblie arc now tor the tint tiinc pre tented with both 



fen* 



This kind of Red Oak t% difiinguifhtd in Dr. SoUndcr** uikmueript* ai a variety hv the 



lutne of amtignx, Wl was probably thought jkh fuincicntly marked to ddervc a place in the 



Harta Kc*A'enfitt 



