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TAB. MIL 



PHALiENA QPERCULARIS. 



WAVED YELLOW EGGEK MOTH. 



VIBURNUM PRVSIFOLIVM. L!XN< 



fLUM-LKAVP-D VlPUBNUM t OH JILACK IIAW-TRKE, 



Pli- Btmfy* clinguis alls revtrns? uavis: nurginc anterior! difcoquc fufco lincoli* snafto- 



Tun caterpillar feed* on the Mark Haws, s.. i-iii r .-. ■-. i'.um, &c- It tj>un on the 

 ■ lit of September, anil the moth appeared July lath. Tim fjweics always ihancs 

 it* web or cocoon a* in the figure, fattening it to a twig. '17ie tht end opens and 

 flrati like a door, am* Is fitted with the greaictt exadnci*. The infeel continues in 

 tin* mb all winter in the worm (late, not changing to a chrylali* till witliin a 

 fliorl time of its final transformation into a fly, 'Hie caterpillar is thaped like the 

 roof of a houie, the hairs riling on each fide gradually to a ndj;c down the middle 

 of its back. 



This and the following have fume flight agreement with llie descriptions of PkjIjtM fid* 

 fhiratj and wit* of Fabrkius fWtm, t**mJ, /V, 4* W? t 30S, fuftttfitig tbofc deicriptions 

 to Imc born nude from Icniale infccls, without any knowledge of the Other fcx or tlieir orco- 

 nomri but wc cannot conceive ilui in intelligent an entomo^ogitl could, even fo cirtura* 

 lUnccd, hive taken tlieic moths for gewvtr*, and thctcforc prcfumc tbey aic hitherto totally 

 noadc&ripL fpeejej. 



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