b2 -* P L mee 1 OCKXIV. 
Colle&tors of Englifh Infeéts enumerate near twenty fpecies of 
ree 2 Prectaw st ing, copper 
Phalzena under the trivial diftin@iions of ye//ow underwing, copp 
Among thefe 
underwing, orange underwing, pink underwing, &c. &c. 
de, are the red 
the moft confpicuous both for beauty and magnitu 
underwing, and crimfon underwing. The firft is by no means Uncom- 
mon in the winged ftate. ‘The latter is very rare, OF at leaft a local 
fpecies: it is found in the larva ftate on the tops of the higheft oaks 
in Richmond Park, and was formerly found in fimilar fituations in 
Burnt Wood, Effex. We are not informed that it has been taken 
in any other part of this kingdom. 
Thefe two fpecies have been confounded with a third fort that is 
und in fome parts of Europe, but oes not, we have every reafon 
o conclude, inhabit this country. This is the Noéiua Paéa of 
Linneus and Fabricius. Linnzus himfelf, in the firft editions of 
the Syftema Natura, confidered the Red Underwing Moth, figured 
by Roefel, tab. 15, as the Phalana Paéta, and adds it in his Syno- 
nyms; but it appears correéted in the later editions *. 
Ater that time, Harris, in his Aurelian, and other works, called 
the Red Underwing Phalena Pata, and the Crimfon Underwing Pha- 
lena Nupta. And Dr. Berkenhout, following Harris, or inattentive 
to the exprefs language of the author he tranflated, has made the 
fame error in his Synopfis of the Natural Hiftory of Great Britain +, 
Indeed, it may be doubted, whether any later Englifh work on 
Infe€is has deteéted the error; for, examining a little traét of Mr. 
Matthew Martin, of the Bath Society, publithed in 1785, we find 
the Red Underwing called therein Phalena Pata. 
To place our remarks in a clear point of view, we need only quote 
the defcriptions of Linneaus:—* Nocrua Pactra Criftata alli 
grifefcentibus fubundatis: “pofticis rebris; fafeiis duabus nigris 
. ee 2 ee 
Abdomine fupra rubro. And again in the general defcription 
* Corre&ted after 1759. ¥ Not corregted in the lan edition. 
“ Abdome 
