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end of February. The caterpillars are very plentiful in their season, and are of the looper kind, 

 as seen at (m) and (n) in the Plate. The chrysalis is small and brown at (p), and the moth of a 

 lightish brown, mottled with a darker colour, as at (q). 

 Expansion of the wings one inch and a half. 



YPONOMEUTA EVONYMELLA. THE FULL-SPOTTED ERMINE MOTH. 



Plate XLIII. fig. 



Synonyms. Phalsena (Tinea) Evonymella, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. 885. Donovan Brit. Ins. vol. ii. 

 pi. 355. fig. 4. 

 Yponomeuta Evonymella, Latreille, Leach, Curtis, Stephens. 

 Erminea Evonymi, the Full-spotted Ermine, Haworth. 

 The Distaff Ermine, Harris* Fade Mecum, p. 25. 



The little white moth with black spots, and the caterpillars within a web. 

 Expansion of the wings from two- thirds to one inch. 



This insect is extremely destructive to the foliage of various fruit trees, the sloe, 

 white thorn, and black-thorn hedges, &c. The caterpillars, which reside in a web in 

 society, in considerable numbers, devour the leaves and often completely defoliate 

 the trees, in the same manner as the Yponomeuta Padella, figured in plate 3. 



DEILEPHILA EUPHORBIA. THE SPOTTED ELEPHANT HAWK-MOTH. 



Plate XLIV. fig. a and c. 



Synonyms. Sphinx Euphorbise, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. 802. Donov. Brit. Ins. pi. 91. 92. 



Deilephila Euphorbiee, Ochsenheimer. Curtis Brit. Entomol. pi. 3. Stephens. Duncan 

 Brit. Moths, pi. 8. 



Upper Side. The antennae are more than half an inch in length, and of a pale flesh colour. 

 The thorax and abdomen are of a brown olive colour : the latter having two square black spots 

 on each side. The superior wings are of an olive colour toward the sector edges ; but the other 

 parts incline to a pink or rose colour : toward the shoulder is an olive-coloured cloud of irregular 

 form : about the middle of the wing on the bar is another, about the same size and colour ; a 

 third spot, which is a kind of bar or stripe, arises at the slip edge more than a quarter of an inch 

 in breadth, and crossing the fan tendons ends in a point at the apex of the wing. The inferior 

 wings are of a rose colour, having a bar or stripe of black crossing each. 



It has been long in dispute, whether the Spotted Elephant was a native of this island ; but 

 it is now past a doubt, as I had the good fortune to find a caterpillar of this moth in marshy 

 ground at Barnscry, near Crayford, in Kent, about the middle of August. It was more than 

 three inches long, of a dark brown colour : the horn at the tail part, which was about half an 

 inch long, appeared black and glossy. The head was nearly the size of a small pea, and of a 

 lightish yellow brown or tan colour. I tried various herbs to bring it to feed, but my attempts 

 were fruitless, and it died from want. The chrysalis in the Plate at (c was sent me from Belisle 

 in France ; and the moth at (a) was produced from it about the beginning of June. 



Expansion of the wings three inches. 



Harris here confounded together two distinct but closely allied species of Hawk 

 Moths; the Moth described above as having been reared from a French chrysalis, not 



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