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PLATE CLXXVII, 



T H E 



CATERPILLAR 



O F 



PHALMNA PINL 



We have introduced in the annexed plate, figures of the Cater- 

 pillars of Phalasna Pini, copied from the works of the two moft 

 accurate entomologifts that have defcribed or figured the Infe6ls of 

 any part of the European continent; and though unfortunately the 

 defcriptions are written in a language fo little underftood as to be 

 wholly ufelefs; the figures are very interelling. In this inftance we 

 have deviated no more from our original plan than when we intro- 

 duced the larva of Sphinx Euphorbia^ and Phahna Fraxin'i\ and we 

 flatter ourfelves in thus endeavouring to give the hiftorv of a rare 

 infe^l complete, the approbation expreffed by our fubfcribers, on 

 former occafions, will not be withheld on the prefent. 



Roefel, in 1746, publiflied the hiJeSien BeluJ}igung\ in which 

 work we find a figure of the Caterpillar of Phalasna Pini: it accords 

 with the defcription given by Fabricius; perhaps the defcription 

 was taken from Roefel's plate. " Larva fubcaudata, albo grifeo 

 fufcoque variegata, collaribus coeruleis : pundis utrinque rufis." 

 Fab. SyJ}. r. 3. ^. 2. 426. 62. 



Kleeman, the relation and fucceflbr of Roefel, in the third part of 

 >his fupplement, Plate 6. fig. 7*. has fhewn the Caterpillar of this 



* Publi/hed in 17939 



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