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of -the wings, extended, three inches ; the face broad and 

 round, of a light yellow, with three beautiful circles of brown 

 and yellow alternately ; a filvery plume on the head, erect ; the 

 body a ftraw-colour with black circles. The upper wings are a 

 filvery grey; three tranfverfe wavy lines towards the head, brown 

 and yellow, alternately ; a large fpace of a beautiful ftraw-co- 

 lour towards the extremities, with three irregular wavy circles 

 of brown and yellow, in an alternate order, extremely elegant. 

 The legs are feathered down to the very ends, like thofe of a 

 dove ; the feathers long, and as white as fnow. This, here de- 

 fcribed, was found under the foliage of fome wild plants at 

 Chipchace, and prefented to me by Mrs. Reed. 



The Eruca is a gay little creature ; the face black, with a nar- 

 row forked line of white ; a lunar circle of red on the crown ; 

 the holders black and briftled ; the upper part of the body ftriated 

 with longitudinal lines of black and a pale yellow, with tranf- 

 verfe ones of red ; a feries of fhining black fpots on the joints, 

 on each fide. The foliage of the willow is its favourite retire- 

 ment and food. The chryfalis is red, fhaded with black. 



31. The brown and gold-yellow Moth (f) is not unfrequent in gar- 

 dens, under weeds. It meafures between the tips of the wings, 



extended, 



Goed. p. rQ2. t. 80. Phalsena pectinicornis elinguis villofiflima cinerea ; alls exterioribus 

 lineolis obfoletis nigris maculaque duplici pallida. Linn, Faun. Succ. p. 256. n. 829. 

 BUFF-TIPPED MOTH. I-filtx, Inf. t. 6. f. 7. 



(f) Papifio major, alls praelongis ; exterioribus vel fun's vel ex cinereo nigricantibus ; in- 

 terioribus fulvis cum fafcia lata nigra propc imum marginem. Raj. Inf. p. 237. ri. 18. Pa- 

 pilio major, cum exterioribus alis fufcis, internis aureis nigra linca fimbriatis. Mcrret.Ym. 

 p. 198. Lift. Goed. p. 114. f. 41. Papilio alis depreffis grifeis, obfcure maculatis, infe- 



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