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blackith *, though they agree in the markings; and he further ob- 
ferves, that the female is of a more cinereous colour than the male, 
but has the fame kind of fpots on the wings. 
Our figure of the larva is taken from a well-preferved fpecimen 
‘lately obtained by us from Germany as the larva of this fpecies, 
and which agrees fo exaétly with the Linnean defcription, and the 
figure in the plate of Roetfel, that we cannot hefitate to admit it as 
fuch. The pupa delineated in our plate is alfo from the fame fource. 
The food of the Phalena Chi is the columbine and the thiftle. 
“ Il y a des variétes de cette Phaléne, qui font rougeatres et d’autres noiratres : 
mais toutes ont les deux taches ronde et quarrée fur les aflés. 
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