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ourfelves met with a living fpecimen of it in the Ifand of Anglefes 
fome few years ago. ‘This occurred im the day time, in the month of » 
September, under the fhade of a little clufter of fiones and buthes 
near Manachty, the northern extremity of the ifland, and at no great dif- 
tance from the road to Gwyndy. 
It is not entirely new as an Englifh infe&, having been deferibed by 
Ray, but this is the only mftance within our recollection, fince the time 
_ of that writer, in which any naturalift is faid to have meet with it in 
our country. in Germany, and feveral others parts of Europe it is 
not very unfrequent. 
« 
The fpecimen difcovered by us is of the male fex, and is that re- 
prefented in the upper part of the annexed plate. ‘The lower figure 
is of the female-kind, which we have ventured to add, though taken 
from an exotic fpecinien in order to illuftrate the hiftory of this curi< 
ous infect, the two fexes of which differ fo materially that they might 
readily be miftaken for diftinét {pecies. 
It rarely occurs to obfervation in the larva ftate: by fome it is fup- 
pofed to feed on the afh, while others affirm that its natural-food is ihe 
plaintain. ‘The larva is brown with a white dorfal line, and rufous 
legs. The pupa ferruginous. 
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