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PLATE IX. 



PHAL^NA PADELLA. 

 Small Ermine Moth. 



Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antenna taper from the bafe. Wings in general defleaed when 

 tt reft. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Firft wings lead colour, with about twenty black dots : fecond 

 ones brown, 



PhaLjENA (Tinea) Padella : alis primoribus lividis : pun£lis 20 

 nigris pofterioribus fufcis. Linn. Fn. Suec. 1364- 

 — Gmel. Linn. Syjl. Nat. 2586. Sp. 35 1 . 



Phalaena Padella feeds on the white-thorn, black -thorn, and on 

 fruit trees. In May the caterpillars are hatched, and as they live in 

 focieties of hundreds, or even thoufands, by their united induftry they 

 fpin a web fpacious enough to contain the family, and therein they 

 aflume their feveral forms ; early in June they become chryfalides, 

 and in about fourteen days after that change the moths appear. 



The caterpillars of the Phal&na Padella and Evonymella are almofl 

 ever found in the fame fociety, and many circumftances have been 



advanced 



