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could well have been expected in its weak and feeble ftate, be- 

 fore its moift wings were dry and unfolded. In about half an 

 hour after, it was vigorous and fprightly, and feemed by its 

 motions to exult under its refufcitation from its reptile ftate to a 

 volant one, capable of furveying by gentle flights every beauti- 

 ful vegetable, and regaling on their velvet buds and bloflbms. 



26. The final/, beautiful, red and dark brown Moth (a) is frequent' 

 in vale-meadows, in June and July. The head, antennas, and 

 body are black. The under wings are of a deep beautiful red, 

 with a narrow edging of a dark brown. The upper wings arc 

 of a fine umbre-brown, with a beautiful ftreak of deep red on 

 each of them, lengthways, near the edges, with two orbicular 

 fpots of red at the tips. I caught this here defcribed on the 

 fouth fide of the vicarage-garden at Haltwefel. 



The Eruca is of a deep orange-colour, with circles of black. Ic 

 lives on the Ragwort* The chryfalis is of the fame colour. 



27. The gold-yellow and brown Moth (bj is not unfrequent in gar- 

 dens. It is exceedingly beautiful ; the plumage of the face of a 



(a) Phalaena media, alis exterioribus colore nigro & fanguineo variis, extimo duntaxat 

 margine nigro. Raj. Inf. p. 168. n. 2<5. Phalaena umbrica, linea maculifque fanguineis. 

 Petiv. Gaz. p. 52. t. 33. f. 6. Papilio Jacobaese. Derbam. Phyfico-theol. 1. 8. c. 6. n. 6. 

 Lift. Goed. p. 134. f. 54. All'm. Inf. t. 34. f. H. G. Phalaena feticornis fpirilinguis ; alis 

 fuperioribus fufcis: linea pundtifque duobus rubris ; inferioribus rubris. Linn. Faun. Suec. 

 p. 268. n. 869. 



(b) Phalxna media, alis exterioribus duplici area tranfverfa' vitidi-aurata ferici inftar 

 fplendente infignibus. Raj. Inf. p. 182. Mcrian. Europ. v. i. p. 14. t. 39. Phalxna 

 ftticornis fpirilinguis i alis deflexis nebulofis ; fafcia una aherave aurea. Linn. Faun. Suec. 

 p. 270. n. 875. 



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