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TAB. LV. 



PHAL/ENA IMPERATORIA. 



GREAT- PLANK TREE MOTH- 



PLATANUS QCCtDBttTJbiS* LINN. 



AMERICAN rL&NL'TRKt 



Vh, ilmtiyx tlingiiit, ill* rrvertu flavii fu&o irrorait*: orambut macula fubocctbri firigjqur 



UlkJjU giurpurafcrntc. 



Tiir caterpillar of this noble moth feed* on tha Plane Tree (cm>i>coufly called Sy- 

 camore in firorp:i). Oak, LiqnitUmifatr and Pine tree*- It went into t he grvund 

 September lOlh. andeamc out July 4th. Some of thcic catcrpillara arc laiwiy like 

 a DCpOj lime orange and tawny, other* preen* They are not common, and are 

 the moil dilEkult of all to brin# to perfedion in confinement, a* lliey will not eat 

 in that Situation; ami even it" they change to a chr% lMt». they die afterward*. I 

 once fiw one of* ihcfc moth* on the wing much larger tlun that in the [date. 



Tiii bl tunic i ending in &lh bcinj* pioper to the Piraht l we lave tniiSe a flight akrralion 

 in (hit. W« hair alfo remoral it from tlw divinon of Bmtya el'tt Jffimt on account of it* 

 imnifrft affinity with the ihree following, and thence with the Pkttm ftfjurit. be. 0/ Lin- 

 tuetm though pdllvv wc nor Ptofrflbr Fabricitu lure fixn it with it* wingi doled, and 

 therefore cannot be abfolutclr certain on tint print. 



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