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PLATE CLXXVII. 



THE 



CATERPILLAR 



O F 



PHALjENA pini 



We have introduced in the annexed plate, figures of the Cater- 

 pillars of Phaleena Pini, copied from the works of the two moft 

 accurate entomologifts that have defcribed or figured the infecls of 

 any part of the European continent ; and though unfortunately the 

 defcriptions are written in a language fo little underftood as to be 

 wholly ufelefs ; the figures are very interesting. In this inftance we 

 have deviated no more from our original plan than when we intro- 

 duced the larva of Sphinx Euphorbia, and Phalcena Fraxini ; and we 

 flatter ourfelves in thus endeavouring to give the hiftory of a rare 

 infeft complete, the approbation exprefled by our fubfcribers, on 

 former occafions, will not be withheld on the prefent. 



Roefel, in 1746, publifhed the InJeEfen Belujiigtwg ; in which 

 work we find a figure of the Caterpillar of Phalaena Pini : it accord* 

 with the defcription given by Fabricius ; perhaps the defcription 

 was taken from Roefel's plate. " Larva fubcaudata, albo grifeo 

 fufcoque variegata, collaribus coeruleis : punfhs utrinque rufis." 

 Fab. Syjl. T. 3. p. 2. 426. 62. 



Kkeman, the relation and fucceffor of Roefel, in the third part of 

 his fupplement, Plate 6. fig. 7 *. has Ihewn the Caterpillar of this 



* Publifhed in 1793. 



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