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P HALiENA CLEM A TA ft I A. 



GREAT BOOK-TIP LOOPER MOTH. 



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CLEMATIS ROSEA AG/',/ SPJ 



RETICULATA* HALT. FLO. CAROL. 1*67 



lE*C01.0l rcd virgin s BMW me. 



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PI). Gnwtr* pcAinicomis ah* fubcrofi*: omnibus grifc^flarefccntibn. puotfo diici nigroj 

 flrigi commuai luteScenie apicc luraail. 



TBI food of thi* caterpillar il the climbing pbnl here rcprcfcntcd. as well as Aider 

 and Saflafra*. Jt fpiin on the 23d of June, and came out on the lath of Julv. The 

 tly. though not common, may be taken in ihe night fucking the bloilbm* of plum 

 tree* both tn Georgia and Virginia. 





Thi* fpecia b next aVin to J*A. Sjrmgarh of Linmeut, a rare Englidi Moth eomnwoly 

 called the Richmoud Beauty; iliey arc however fufficienllydirtinel tn their perfect ibtr. *ml 

 their /mv Ate very different. 



TV Ctfmjrii it feed* upon fcem* to be luihcito nondricript, ofwhicli w* luie fren a T:>c- 

 cimrn from the Kcw garden In Sir Jofcpb Bank* * eo! Section, Jt may be diaraclrrifcd 



Fe&t /■/ArirW frvutify*/ rirrfofi inirgrrrim, frU&t Imnhti/, Jmwbut tdvJifmf gU* 



Ttiii inighl certainly be taken for tj»c C. rtfindtt* of Walter** Mora Carolinian*, p. 150, 

 copied into CmehV* Syflcnu, p. *>?a, if the lafl .mentioned writer only were confided in ; for 

 he ha* omitted a jttrt of the cimnWter t4*&i fLm$fmit t aid tl*c tell agrer*cK*clIy with oin? 

 plant. But m the Kcw fpeciincn, xvbich, though Irj leave* arc more acute and fomeiiinc* 

 lobed. we can fcarcely think dilfemit from that before u*, the Urge coronreflcd frcd* arc only 

 (lightly downy a* wdl at their ta*J** We mull leave the abfolute dc ttn n lattl OB of tliti 

 point till we are poueflcd of better material* to decide it. The bright red colour of the 

 flower* it untifoal in the genu* of Cttmttix, 



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