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teftimony of the refpeSable authors; though from the fcarcity of 

 many amongft them, we fliould be fcarcely inclined to admit them 

 into an Englifh colledtion without fuch authority. Perhaps the ra- 

 rity of fome of thofe infers (hould be rather attributed to the little 

 attention bellowed on the fcience of Entomology by fuch as refide 

 in parts of the kingdom that are mod favourable to the increafe of 

 infedls in general ; or to thofe particularly rare fpecies that are local, 

 or feed only on plants of one kind ; fuch as the Sphinx Euphorbia^ 

 and many others. 



Wilks has given the Pine Lappet Moth in the third plate of Ihe 

 Englifh butterflies. Harris has not figured it in the Aurelian *, but 

 in the Pocket Companion t he not only defcribes it amongft the 

 Englifh Lepidoptera, but fays, the time of its changing into Chry- 

 falis is Mayy and that it appears in the winged flate in June ; from 

 this we mufl fuppofe, that he had reared it from the Caterpillar, 

 Berhenhout, in his fynopfis of the natural hiftory of Great Britain:}:, 

 has given it without hefitation as an Englifh infed ; and the autho- 

 rity of a little traiSl on infeds, by Martin §» may be adduced as a 

 further confirmation of its being a native of this country. 



This Infedl is not uncommon in Germany. SchasfFer has figured 

 it amongfl the infedls that are to be found in the environs of Ra- 

 tifbon; and Roefel, without confidering it a local fpecies, has 

 given it as a native of Germany. Whether it is found in other parts 

 of Europe, except Switzerland and Germany, we cannot decide ; 

 but we have the precife fpecies from Georgia in North America. 



We obferve a confiderable difference between the colouring of this 

 moth in the works of Schaffer and Roefel, which is the more re- 

 markable, as they both defcribe the infedts of the fame country ; the 

 figure given by the latter is much darker in the chefnut colour, and 

 the grey has no appearance of an intermixture of red fpecks and 

 markings, like that figured in Schaffer, which inclines very much to 

 red or flefh colour throughout. Roefel has only figured the female ; 

 Schseffer has given both fexes. 



• Publi/hedin 1766. f 177^. \ 1789, § 1785. 



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