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TAB. LXXIV, 



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PHALiENA PITHECIUM. 



BAT-CATERPILLAR MOTH. 



DIOSPYKOS I'lRGiNIASA, LINN. 



FEUSIMMON, OR AMWUCAN DAT* rtUM, 



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Ph. TiWjj* clinguis itatkikzU fafcorjcbubn*; nucuh difcl palnuiia: luiVoi ttuiinguU. 



Tim caterpillar rata iVrtlmroon and Oaks. I: it of a very extraordinary lhapc, 

 laving a kind of tuftl growing on its back rrfembling wing* or horns, the fub* 

 fiance of which it mixes with it* web. Ic Ipun on the loth of July* and ihc moth 

 wa» produced the sill. Thi* fpecic* b found a ho in Virgin!*, but ii verv rat*. 





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Stoll in hi* fupplcmcnl to Cramer give* the fi^rcofthi« caicrpillir precifely, uk 19*/ 1, 

 ai belonging to Cramer'* JH/fjr/La t /. I&3,/. D; but thai figure, if good for any thing, can- 

 not by any mean* be our moth, and wc have therefore girew it a new name ilimlmg to it* 

 uncouth figure in the Xiew llitr- It i» fo nearly akin to Ph. £>//«;, llut though the jutenrw* 

 of the male arc very little pecUrutcd, we venture to nUec it among the IhmH<r4 f cfpcculiv 

 oilUc lharwofiuchryfaliij like tlut of Gffht, rrukc* it what jurclianicall an mr-'. 







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