ref peeling fome rare Britijh Infeffs. 3 



From feveral years attention to this fubjee~t, I think the caterpillar 

 does not enter the wood till the fecond year of its own age ; as 

 among all the numerous larva I have found from June to No- 

 vember, I could perceive but a flight difference in fize. Probably 

 therefore they may feed on the tender bark of the fallow root the 

 firft year after they are hatched ; and it feems they eat into the 

 wood about June. 



Tab. i, Figr^r^snlTeTriale~SprrT^^ 



7. The female. 



8. The caterpillar in its proper fituation. 



9. The pupa, its head turned downwards. 



10. The web clofing the orifice, by which the ani- 

 mal had entered and rauft come out. 



3. Phaljsna Trifolii. 



Bombyx Trifolii. Fab. Mant. u 2. 



The Grafs Egger Moth. 



Tab. 2. Fig. 1 — 4. 



Its caterpillar feeds on Trefoil, and changes to a pupa in June. 

 The fly comes forth the latter end of Auguft. 



Thefe larva are to be met with on the uncultivated grafly chalk- 

 hills of Kent, particularly near Darent wood. They fecrete them- 

 felves under ftones in the day, and come forth to feed in the even- 

 ing. 



The male fly has broad pectinated antenna, a light coloured bar 

 on the upper and under wing, a (lender body, with a filky tuft at 

 the anus. The antenna of the female are indeed pectinated, but 

 not to be perceived without a magnifier. It has only a faint bar 

 on the upper wings, without the leaft fign of any on the under. 

 The body is much larger, and terminates without a tuft. 



B 9 Tab. a. 



