66 PL, Ay Popa ek: 
fize, are to be feen in almoft every cabinet ; but that the {pecies fhould 
have efcaped the refearches of the moft eminent collectors, 1s rather \ 
aftonifhing. 
We have fought every information which our connection would 
permit; and from the refult we fcarcely hefitate to pronounce the 
infect of a nondefcript fpecies, and our fpecimen to be perfectly 
unique; at leaft it is a newly-difcovered acquifition to many {cientific 
entymologitts. 
The original, whence the figure has been copied, is in the collec- 
tion of the author; it was taken in a lane leading immediately from 
the wood at Yottenbam, the laft week in June, 1793. It was dif- 
covered in the evening, ona blade of grafs; and, from its wet ap- 
pearance, as well as exquifite prefervation, it had certainly jut 
emerged from its chryfalis. 
The Caterpillar may be fuppofed to be an underground feeder, and 
to fubfift on the roots of grafs, 8c. or one of that kind which comes 
enly above the furface of the earth in the night. 
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