56 PL, Aree  XXIx, 
have met with feveral about the narrow lanes in Darent-wood, Dart- 
ford, in April, or early in the month of May. It is however very 
difficult to breed them ; they generally die in the pupa ftate, or be- 
fore they caft their laft {kin when caterpillars; from feveral fpeci- 
mens taken during the three laft fummers, we have only had one 
Moth produced, and that fo crippled, as merely to enable us to af- 
certain the {pecies. | 
The fmall Caterpillars are of a dark purplifh colour, when nearly 
full fed they have a yellow under fide marked with black, with the 
back purple ; before they change to the pupa ftate, they become 
almoft brown, 
They remain only a month in the pupa ftate. “The Moth appears 
about the middle of June.—Food, white-thorn and alder. 
PHALANA ANASTOMOSIS: 
Bor. IV: 
Since the publication of the laft Number, we have been favoured 
with a moft beautiful fpecimen of the Moth figured in the 124th Plate 
of this Work, and prefent a figure of it to our fubfcribers, together 
with the feveral changes of the Phalzna Haftata; it will fhew how 
very liable this Infect is to variation in its colours, fize, &c. 
We find alfo that though this Infe&t has been named Phalena 
Anaftomofis in the moft fcientific Cabinets in London, and always 
received as fuch by the belt authority, it is not the Infect 
referred to by Fabricius in his Species Infectorum under that 
title; that Author, as well as Linnzus, refers under the fpecific 
name Ph. Curtula to the 43d Plate of the third Volume of Roefel’s 
Infects ; in this Plate is figured a Moth which is certainly a fpecies 
diftinét from our Infeét, and is well known by its Linnzan name 
Curtula, or Englith title Chocolate Tip ; yet Fabricius gives-an addi- 
tional reference for the fame fpecies to the 11th Plate of Roefel’s 
fourth 
