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PLATE X. 



PHALiENA CHRYSORRHCEA, 



Yellow Tail Moth. 



Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 

 No trunk. Wings depreffed, deflexed. Back fmooth. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae feathered. Entirely white, except the extremity of the 

 abdomen, which is yellow. Caterpillar black and red, hairy. — • 

 Berk. Out. 



Linnaeus in the Syjlema Isfatura, has confounded the Yellow Tail, 

 with the Brown Tail, Moth, nor was it generally confidered as an 

 error till fome time after j but the immenfe increafe of the caterpillars 

 of the Brown Tail Moth in the year 1 780, afforded an opportunity 

 of determining them to be diftindt fpecies. 



Though foreign to our purpofe, and properly under the hiflory of the 

 Brown Tail Moth, we cannot pafs over fuch remarkable circumftances 

 as attended the uncommon increafe of this fpecies in the above winter. 



The 



