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PLATE X. 



PHAL1NA AURIFLUA. 



Yellow Tail Moth. 



Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas taper from the bafe : wings in general deflected when at 

 reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CH4RACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



White ; extremity of the abdomen yellow. 



Bombyx auriflua : alis albis : prlmoribns fubtus cofta fufca 

 ano barbato luteo. Fab r. M ant. Inf. 2. p. 125. 

 n. 145. 



P II A L /E N A [Bombyx J C H R Y S O R R H CE A . Li mi . Svfi. Nat. 



S2SKSBBEH3 



Linnaeus confounded the Yellow Tail Moth, with another kind 

 known among collectors of Englifh Infefts by the name of the 

 Brown Tail Moth ; an infect which it may be recollected appeared 

 in fuch prodigious numbers in the year 1780, as to fpread the utmoft 

 conflernation throughout the vicinity of the Metropolis ; the credulous 

 believing them to be the certain prelude of a famine : — The larvae of 



E this. 



