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PH ALjENA ILICIFOLIA. 



SMALL LAPPET MOTH. 



QUERCUS VIIELLO$> A/1YA.-3 AIT, IIQltT. KEHZ Kx 35j, 



DWARF WILLOW. LEAVED OAK. 



3. OOMBYCEi EI.1SGUES AL1S UJ-HS/& 



PI). &™fyj dingiiis alis rcrerib fcnutciU* fi-mtis grifci* mirginc portico albo *aricgito. 



ttulxaj itiri&tU, /in Sjf. ft*, pn + 



IteotyL iUtUolj f*#r, £w* *«£ P. 4. ill* 



Cbnullc fraaJ* rl Ltfgw, kx, 1\ faet l*f, H I. Tip. /> 14./ I — 1}< 



FftBDS on the Willow Oak, and oilier Oak*, as well as on the Aih. Spun iiftlf tip 

 on the 3d of May among the leaves in a grey brown web; in which ihc chr} *tnli* 

 was enveloped wild a pale brown powder. TJie moth came out February 71I1 fol- 

 lowing. It U not a common fpecics. 



/'Aj/jtu iaVi/a/h, one of the rarcft Kuropcan !&&£*, ftcms to bare been ficil noticed by 

 DeGcer* b the firft volume of hi* excellent mfc* pubblhed in 17M. Fran him UoMKts 

 introduced U into the fecond edition of f!:«u davdrv, in 176X and pcifcc* fpedmem orbotli 

 fan oflhw moth arc pfefmed in ihc Unrnui cabinet. With ihefr fpcciroen* the drawing* 

 of Mr. Abbot To prccilcly agree* there can be no doubt of tltcir representing trrc bine fpedes, 

 cieejx only the fpot on the fore wings of tbc male being, in the Specimen, a minute dirk 

 fpeck with a tiftbl tint about it, a* in IV Gccr ** figure, yet not fo «liftin<ft a* in ilut figure. 

 Mr. Abbot delineate* a light fpcxX, without the dirk one ; Imt we do not concern thi* dr- 

 cumfbntc to indkale any real difference- ft it more wonderful thai IX* Ceer mould not* in 

 tut otbcnvifc very c*ac"fc defcription of the caterpillar, lure noticed iu two red Uanfvcrfe 

 mark* toward* the head, 



Coloured figure* fuppofed to reprefent the fume infeer, in all its different ilagcs are given 

 by i\f|*T f /'*/■ 3» /. fi» ami in the Xsiurforfchcr, /V. 15. t. a. In tlicfc the caterpillar has 

 red or orange-coloured marl* lite our*** ind frorn hence probably Fabriciu* ** fliort driV-tip- 

 tion of tlic larva is ukrm but the figures arc othcrwifc too rudely coloured for us to <!cter- 

 niine with certainly whether ilicy be done from the Tune fjveic* At the Arocricjn one, or as 

 tint of Dc Geer j neither u the colouring of tbc moth lite our* or (lie fpeeitnen* of Linrurut. 

 £f|>er'« faiuhf''tu> hi* more of ihe true hue, but it* caterpillar it different. With rcfpccl to 

 thefe two fynonyiu* hoiccier, the author* mull anfwer for ihcmfchc*. Wc venture, in fpiie 

 of the Utile difficulties above mentioned, to olfcr our* a* Hie i&riftB* of Linnarut. 



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