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voured the reft, and many others wandered from the food, and f© 

 perifhed. The Moths were far fuperior for the beauty and richnefs 

 of their colours to any fpecimens we have feen before ; but this is 

 not remarkable, as moft of the fpecimens preferved in Cabinets near 

 London, have been taken in the winged ftate. 



It feeds on the lime ; is found in the Caterpillar ftate in Auguft ; 

 the Moth appears in June. Is fometimes taken in the interior part 

 of Darent-Wood, Dartford ; and rarely elfewhere near London* 

 It has been met with alfo at Feverfham, in Kent, on the Elm. 



Kleman, in the laft volume of German Infects, lately publifhed, 

 has given three figures of this Moth ; but has neither figured the 

 Caterpillar nor Pupa. Fabricius is the only fyftematical Writer who 

 appears to have noticed it. 



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