86 PLATE CLXX. 



Phalana media ochroleucos, alis ampliflimis, exterioribus duabus 



lineis tranfverfis, e fulvo virentibus, in- 



tcrioribus, una divifis. Kflj. Inf. 177. I. 



Phalana antennis filiformibus, alis latis angulatis luteis, ftrigis duabus 



obfcurioribus. Degeer Inf. Verf. Germ. 

 2.I.327.3. 



Albin Inf. tab. 94. 



Roef. Inf. 1 phal. 3. tab. 6. 



Pet iv. Gazoph. tab. 51. fig. 6. 



Wi 'Iks pap. 38. tab. 1.6. 2. 



Clerk. Icon. tab. 50. j^-. 2. 



Scbceff. Icon. tab. 93. yfe. 8. 



Sepp. Inf. 6. I, /«£. 1. 



fVien Verz. 103. I. 



Infers, when in the larva (late, have various means of protect- 

 ing, or concealing themfelves from other fpecies that would annoy 

 them, as well as from birds who prey on them. This remark is 

 partly juftified by the fubjecT: of our annexed plate, the larva of 

 winch we find is not furnifhed with any means of defence when 

 attacked: nor of agility to run away, or fecrete itfelf from its 

 enemies ; but to compenfate for this, nature has formed it with a 

 |hn of fuch. colour, and ftrudure, that its greateft fafety is in its 

 inaa.on We frequently fee it fattened by its hind feet to a fmall 

 twig or branch ,n fuch a pofture, that nnlefs it moves, it is f carce]y 

 poffible to d.fcaver it. It is fometimes in an ere£t nnflf ! 



otherswith its head downwards, but i„ an o^J^J 

 as it hangs ln tins manner, without the leaft appearance of l'ff 

 a confiderable time, it exadly refembles a fmalUw ,W t I u 

 to which it is attached. g ° f the branch 



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