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TAB. LXIIL 



PHALjENA dione. 

 strkakeij american tiger moth. 



PLANTAGO HA /OR II j\\V. 



G UK AT Kit PLANTAIN. 



Ph. Btmfyt rlingui*, ftli* tlrflcxU airU: rivnJrt dilataiit mbicundi*; pefiicH Incarnati* 

 nigro macular Jiorf marginal i fuM. 





Till mterpilbr feeds upon Plantain, Cora, Peas, and many other plants. It 

 was hatched on the 23d of July, Ipun the 2flUi of Aupifl. nod thr ilv appealed 

 September oth. I* lomclimc* make* great dcvaltalion among joung Indian corn, 



The moth here irprcfrnted u nearly allied to the Uil f and wu perhaps by Linnwu* eon- 

 with it, but ihcy way be difiingmflwd In every Gate- Tlicir Ricat affinity, and the 

 analogy of nri K hbouring fpeeics mud form our apology for the fcemmg abfurdity of defining 

 bad upper win** a* black, when the lij»ht coloor certainly prrdominate»- Dr. Hunter* Mu< 

 from Jhcw* th» to be the thmfyi AW of Fabriciuj, and it exactly agrees with hit defcrip- 

 tiont but ashei^ither^ow^&ury^Jigurr, nor baa placed ih» moth m h» iyilein near 

 any of thofr t« wl^cli it u evidently and flriAly related, we could fcarcdy have made it om 

 but by accident. 



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