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teftimony of the refpeclable authors; though from the fcarcity of 

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

 into an Englilh collection without fuch authority. Perhaps the ra- 

 rity of fome of thofe infers mould be rather attributed to the little 

 attention bellowed on the fcience of Entomology by fuch as refide 

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

 infects 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 the 

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

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

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

 ialis is May, and that it appears in the winged ftate in June; from 

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

 Berhnhout, in his fynopfis of the Natural Hiftory of Great Britain t 

 has given it without hefitation as an Englifli infeel; and the autho- 

 rity of a little traa on infeHs, by Martin §, may be adduced as a 

 further confirmation of its being a native of this country. 



This Infeft is not uncommon iif Germany. Schceffer has figured 

 it amongft the infeds 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^ colouring of this 

 moth in the works of Scbaffer and Roefel, ^vhich is the more re- 

 markable, as they both defenbe the inf e a S 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 Scb*ffer t which inclines very much to 

 red I or -fleft colour throughout. Roefel has only figured the female; 

 bchasffer has given both fexes. 



* Publifhed iu 1766, + 177 e . ^ nn 



J JUb ' t 17m § 1785. 



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