70 Miscellaneous Facts and Observations. 



Entomology. 



11. One of the insects which attack and injure the 

 Lombardy- Poplar, is a species of Moth, described by 

 Linnaeus, under the name of Phalcena ( Bombyx ) anas- 

 tomosis, elinguis, thorace ferruginato, alis deflexis 

 griseo-cinerascentibus : strigis tribus pallidis suban- 

 astomosantibus. Faun. Suec. 1125. Syst. Nat. torn. 

 1. Pars 2. p. 824. In Europe, it commits its greater 

 ravages upon some species of Salix, or Willow. 



12. Mr. Peck, of Massachusetts, informs the Edi- 

 tor, that he has " detected the Sphinx, which is so 

 destructive to the Robinia Pseudacacia," or White- 

 flowering Locust. " There are (says this ingenious 

 gentleman) some curious particulars attending it; 

 but as I do not know precisely all its periods, I will 

 say no more of it, till some future occasion. I be- 

 lieve it remains in the larva state more than one year; 

 perhaps more than two. The Callidium flexuosum 

 does but part of the mischief." 



13. A living individual of that singular insect, the 

 Elater noctilucus, was found, some time since, in the 

 Greets of Philadelphia. It lived for several weeks, 

 .luring which time it ate nothing, but continued ap- 

 parently vigorous, and very powerfully emitted its 



