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that it had been taken in this country, but the fa6l was not clearly 

 afcertained till within the laft two years. 



The late Duchefs of Portland, it is reported, once found a muti- 

 lated wing of fome Phal^na hanging in a cobweb, which it was 

 conje£lured had belonged to this fpecies ; but on fuch flender au- 

 thority few were difpofed to confider it as a Britifh In fed : and thence 

 it remained a fubje6l of difpute till the fummer of 1799, when our 

 worthy friend W. Jones, Efq. met with a charming fpecimen of it 

 alive in his own garden at Chelfea ; and thereby removed every 

 doubt refpedling it, as a Britifh Species. 



The larva feeds on the Larkfpur, and is figured by Roefel toge- 

 ther with the eggs and pupa ; thofe figures we have copied in the 

 annexed plate, as they render the hiflory of this interefting Infe6l 

 more complete than our limited information would otherwife permit. 

 • — The larva feems to bear fome refemblance to thole of Phalsena 

 Verbafci, or Water Betony Moth ; the colours are nearly the fame, 

 but the black fpots in the former are more numerous. 



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