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TAB. XCIX. 

 PHALjfcNA GAVRM. 



CLOUDED-CRIMSON MOTH, 



\A 



'f*A\ 





CAUIU BISftXiS, LI MX. 



BIENMAL CAUHA 



Rj. A*t7** fpirilinguU eritUia, alii albii: priraoribm flriga ommlxuquc nurginc fagui. 



ncis ttaracc lUtcicrntc. 



Fueos on the ftniTA II wait into the ground Augm! Soili, ami remained ihwr 

 till the 9th of Augult following. 1*hc moth let tic* upon the blolfomN and at a 

 fault dituncc cannot be dtAinpiilticfl from them. It ?u* no* l«n found in Vir- 

 ginia. 



If Mr, Abtof* note* be not erroneous the lime thi* fprcio remain* in the chryuK* b 



Very C Xll i' 1 : ■ til 1 ir (\ 



We have here a moft linking parallel iniUnce to that of §**/&* £a/W/, hh* J, of a 

 rciembUncc. between the (jy and the flower of ihc plant on which it* raierpilur feed*. Thi* 

 rclcmbbnec i* ctcn more complete than in the former intlince. Wlui difTrrcut being* are 

 the herb and the infect while under the mifk of their early ilate 1 \et c»tn tbcii Nature fry a 

 fecrct attraction bring* them together. But wlien, a* Pliny faj-^ they both fliew thcmfclrc* 

 what they realty are, or literally m tkrir tnte ro/acr/, the mofi cafujl observer mull be Antck 

 with their wonderful firaititudc. The fecrctions and modifier! ion* of colouring nutter to 

 which ihi* llrniJitudc i» owin£ might afford a dch^htt ul fpccuhriori for the Ijik. ry, but our in- 

 formalion and our power* arc not competent to attain any certain concJirfiom upon the fub* 

 jerSL We can only lay that tlic Uroe matter of nourirtinnni, whkh, wlien iranfrmited by thn 

 inieea court it mion, generally produce* fucb ditfcicut hue* from what it doe* in the vegetable, 

 in tlteft few inftance* produce* exafllr the fainc. 



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