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 PLATE CLXXI. 



THE 



CATTERPILLAR 



AND 



CHRYSALIS 



O F 



PHALMNA FRAXINL 



The rarity of this fubje6t muft plead our apology for the liberty 

 we have taken in introducing it into our work. It is the only in- 

 ftance in which we have given place to a copy from the works of 

 others of any fubjedl, however rare. We have in our pofleffion a 

 preferved fpecimen of the caterpillar of Phalaena Fraxini, fent from 

 Germany ; but as it is of that kind in which the colours and form 

 cannot be preferved well, we have preferred giving an exa6l copy 

 of the caterpillar as well as chryfalis, from the works of a refpeda- 

 ble, but little known author, Ammiral. This author appears to 

 have been Angularly fortunate in prefenting a figure of the caterpillar, 

 when the accurate Roefel did not publiih a figure of the moth till 

 his fourth volume, and was not then in poiTeffion of the caterpillar. 



Some of our readers will be perhaps furprifed to find that our 

 figures precifely agree with thofe contained in the Aurelian of our 

 countryman Harris \ but whoever poffefTes the plates of A?nmiraly 

 will find that in the mofl minute parts of Harris's plates, he has only 

 traced and reverfed the originals o^ Ammiral throughout ; and in many 

 inftances by a clumfy imitation, in reverfing the foliage and flies, 

 has even fpoilt the efFed, and lofl fight of the accuracy of them. 



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