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24. The large and beautiful moth, called the Bee-Tiger (yj, was 

 taken fome years ago in one of the rooms at Ff/Vcw-hall, -in Oc- 

 tober. It is now in the collection of Mrs. Thompfon, in Northum- 

 berland-Rreet, in Neivcajlle upon Tyne. 



25. The white, black, and yellow Moth (z) is frequent in gardens 

 and hedges in the beginning of fummer. The upper wings 

 are elegantly variegated with a bright yellow and black, in fpots 

 and waves, on a white ground ; the under wings white, fpotted 

 with black ; the body of a bright yellow, with' black fpots. 



The Eruca is briftled, as black as jet, with elegant circles of 

 a bright yellow. It ufually lives all winter in fecure and warm 

 retreats, and in the fpring ventures abroad into gardens, and re- 

 gales on the tender buds of goofeberry and currant-trees. I 

 have found it wandering on the tops of our mountains in fum- 

 mer, ravaging the bloflbms of the Erica and Vaccinia. The Chry 

 falis is of the fame colour, very handfome. 



The moth here defcribed, appeared in June, from a chryfalis 

 in my fludy- window, making its way out of a ftraw- coloured 

 filky clue at the obtufe end. It was afTaulted on its firft appear- 

 ance by an infidious and furious fpider, and preferved by my 

 accidentally feeing it, after it had made a better defence than 



(y) Wiles. Inf. 1. 12. f. i. 



(z) Phalaena media, alis amplis albis, maculis crebris nigris & lineis tranfverfis luteis 

 variis. Raj. Inf. p. 178. n. 14. Eruca geometrica, pulchre variegata, grofTulariis depaf- 

 cens. Pet. Muf. p. 4. n. 7. Lift. Goed. p. 25. f. 9. Phalsena feticornis fpirilinguis 5 alis 

 patentibus albis ; maculis inaequalibus nigris plurimis. Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 263. n. 849. 

 GREAT MAGPYE-MOTH. JV'ilkes. Inf. t. 1 1. f. 6. 



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