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PLATE IX. 



PHALtENA evonymella. 



Small Ermine Moth. 

 Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 

 Antennas taper like briftles. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Firft wings filver-white, with fifty fmall black fpots in rows. 

 Second wings lead-colour. 



Phalsena Evonymella feeds on the white-thorn, black-thorn, and on 

 fruit-trees ; in May the caterpillars are hatched, and as they live in 

 focieties of hundreds, or even thoufands, by their united induftry they 

 fpin a web fpacious enough to contain the family, and therein they 

 aiTume their feveral forms ; early in June they become chryfalides, 

 and in about fourteen days the Flies are perfect. 



The caterpillars of the Pha. Padella and Evonymella are ever 



found in the fame fociety, and many circumftances may be advanced 



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