86 PLATE CLXIX. 



PhaJana media ochroleucos, alls ampliflimis, exterioribus duabus 



lineis tranfverfis, e fulvo virentibus, in- 



terioribus, una divifis. Raj, Inf. 177. i. 



PhaJana antennis filiformibus, alis latis angulatis luteis, flrigis duabus 



obfcurioribus. Degeer Inf. Verf. Germ. 

 2. I. 327. 3. 



Alh'in Inf. tab. 94. 

 Roef. Inf, I phaJ. 3. tab. 6. 

 Petiv. Gazoph. tab. 51. Jig. 6. 

 , ' Wilh pap. 38. tab. i. 6. 2. 



Clerk. Icon. tab. 50. fig. 2. 

 Schceff. Icon. tab. 93. fig. 8. 

 .. ■. Sepp. Inf. 6. I. tab. I. 



fP^ien Verz. 103. i. 



Infe^ls, when in the larva llate, have various means of prote(S- 

 ing, or concealing themfelves from other fpecies that would annoy 

 them, as well as from birds who prey on them. This remark is 

 partly juftified by the fubjedl of our annexed plate, the larva of 

 which we find is not furnifhed with any means of defence when 

 attacked : nor of agility to run away, or fecrete itfelf from its 

 enemies ; but to compenfate for this, nature has formed it with a 

 Ikin of fuch a colour, and ftruilure, that its greateft fafety is in its 

 inaflion. We frequently fee it faflened by its hind feet to a fmall 

 twig or branch in fuch a pofture, that unlefs it moves, it is fcarcely 

 pofTible to difcover it. It is fometimes in an erect pofition, at 

 others with its head downwards, but in an oblique pofition ; and, 

 as it hangs in this manner, without the lead appearance of life for 

 a confiderable time, it exadly refembles a fmall twig of the branch 

 tQ which it is attached. 



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