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that it had been taken in this country, but the faét was not clearly 
afcertained rill within the laft two years. 
The late Duchefs of Portland, it is confidently reported, once 
found a mutilated wing of fome Phalana hanging in a cobweb, 
which, from its appearance, was conjectured to have belonged to an 
individual of this fpecies; but on fuch flender authority few were 
difpofed to confider . Delphinii as a native of Britain, From that 
period it remained a fubje€t of difpute till the fummer of 1799, 
when our worthy friend W. Jones, Efq. met with a fine fpecimen 
of it alive in his own garden at Chelfea; and thereby removed every 
doubt refpeéting it, as a Britifh Species. 
The larva feeds on the Larkfpur, and is figured by Roefel toge- 
ther with the eggs and pupa; thofe figures we have copied in the 
annexed plate, as they render the hiftory of this interefting Infect 
more complete than our limited information would otherwife permit. . 
—The larva feems to bear fome refemblance to thofe of Phalena 
Verbafci, or Water Betony Moth ; the colours are nearly the fame, 
_ but the black {pots in the former are more numerous. 
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