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" Aldomen fupra rojemn." Without adverting, to the other charac- 

 teriftic marks, this proves that the Linnsan fpecies of PaSia cannot 

 be the fame with that of the authors before quoted, becaufe in their 

 fpecies the upper part of the abdomen is hoary, inclining to 

 brown, and not red *. Their Phalaena Pa£la can be no other 

 than the Phalaena Nupta of Linnaeus and Fabricius; the precife 

 fpecies reprefented in our plate; of which Linnsus and Fabricius 

 fay : *' Habitat in Europae Salice Vitellina ;" and of the Phalaena 

 Pa£ta and Sponfa, " Habitat in Europe Quercu." The firft 

 lives on willows, the two others on oaks. 



We clofd our remarks with obferving, that the above quoted 

 Engliih authors have been no lefs miftaken as to Phalasna Nupta, 

 which they have made the Crimfon Under wing Moth. We have before 

 exprefled our doubt whether Phalaena Pa6ta has ever been found in 

 this country \ — we add, that the Infeft, known to Englifli colleftors 

 by the trivial name of Crimfon Underwing, is the Ph^lana Sponfu of 

 Linnaeus and Fabricius t, and confequently not connefted in the leaft 

 with Phalsna Nupta. 



The readers of the works of Harris, Berkenhout, &c. are requefted 

 to read 



For Phalajna Nupta, Phalaena Sponfa, Crimfon Under- 

 wing Moth, 

 For Phalaena Pa£la, Phalsna Nupta, Willow Red Under- 

 wing Moth. 

 And finally, remove Phalsena Pada from the lift of Britifh fpecies, 

 till it is proved to be a native of this country. 



* Berkehhout fays the abdomen is reddifh above j but by this he only cncreafes the 

 miftake j for his fpecies agrees in every other refpeft with the Willow Moth, on whic 

 plant he alfo fays it is found. Page 140. Vol. 2. 



•\ Vide Intomologia Syftematica. Vol. iii. p. 2; p> 53. 147. 



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