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PHAL NA BFRAXINI. 
The rarity of this fubje&t muft plead our apology for the liberty 
we have taken in introducing it into our work. It is the only in- 
ftance in which we have given place to a copy from the works of 
others of any fubject, however rare. We have in our poffeffion a 
preferved fpecimen of the caterpillar of Phalana Fraxini, fent from 
Germany ; but as it is of that kind in which the colours and form 
cannot be preferved well, we have preferred giving an exa& copy 
of the caterpillar as well as chryfalis, from the works of a refpecta- 
ble, but little known author, Ammiral. This author appears to 
have been fingularly fortunate in prefenting a figure of the caterpillar, 
when the accurate Roefel did not publifh a figure of the moth till 
his fourth volume, and was not then in poffeffion of the caterpillar. 
Some of our readers will be perhaps furprifed to find that our 
figures precifely agree with thofe contained in the Aurelian of our 
countryman Harris ; but whoever poffefles the plates of Ammural, 
will find that in the moft minute parts of Harris’s plates, he has only 
traced and reverfed the originals of Ammiral throughout ; and in many 
inftances by a clumfy imitation, in reverfing the foliage and flies, 
has even fpoilt the effect, and loft fight of the accuracy of them. 
PL ALE 
