PLATE X. * 25 



The fears of the public muft have been great indeed, when prayers 

 were oflFered to avert the famine fuppofed to be threatened by the ap- 

 pearance of thofe infeils in the ftate of the caterpillar. 



In July the Caterpillar is found feeding on the white-thorn, fallow, 

 apple-trees, and on fruit-trees in general, about the latter end of the 

 fame month it fpins a web of a tough texture againft the branches 

 of trees, &c, becomes an aurelia, and in Auguft the Fly comes forth. 



