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auce, that if its larva had not been diftinétly afcertained to be one of the 
loopers, we fhould have ftill confidered it of the Bombyx kind. Our 
prefent infeét bears fome refemblance alfo to the fpecies Hirtaria but 
is fmaller. 
Mr. Drury bred the two fexes of this extremely rare infect many 
years ago. "Thefe {pecimens are {till preferved in the cabinet formed 
by that eminent colleétor, and are the only examples of the kind we - 
have ever feen; neither is the fpecies, which we believe ‘to be per- 
fe€tly new, in the pofiefion of any other collector withm our know- 
ledge. 
Both fexes are reprefented in the annexed plates 
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