5 S PLATE CXXIX. 



have met with feveral about the narrow lanes in Darent-wood, Dart, 

 ford, in April, or early in the month of May. It is however very 

 difficult to breed them ; they generally die in the pupa ftate, or be- 

 fore they caft their laft fldn when caterpillars ; from feveral fpeci- 

 mens taken during the three laft fummers, we have only had one 

 Moth produced, and that fo crippled* as merely to enable us to af- 

 certain the fpecies. 



The fmall Caterpillars are of a dark purplifh colour, when nearly 

 full fed they have a yellow under fide marked with black, with the 

 back purple ; before they change to the pupa ftate, they become 

 almoft brown. 



They remain only a month in the pupa ftate. The Moth appears 

 about the middle of June. — Food, white-thorn and alder. 



PHALiENA ANASTOMOSIS. 

 F I G. IV. 



Since the publication of the laft Number, we- have been favoured 

 with a moft beautiful fpecimen of the Moth figured in the 124th Plate 

 of this Work, and prefent a figure of it to our fubferibers, together 

 with the feveral changes of the Phalaena Haftata ; it will fhew how 

 very liable this Infect is to variation in its colours, fize, &c. 



We find alfo that though this Infect has been named Phalasna 

 Anaftomofis in the moft fcientific Cabinets in London, and always 

 received as fuch by the beft authority, it is not the Infect 

 referred to by Fabricius in his Species Infectorum under that 

 title; that Author, as well as Linnasus, refers under the fpecific 

 name Ph. Curtula to the 43d Plate of the third Volume of Roefel's 

 Infects ; in this Plate is figured a Moth which is certainly a fpecies 

 diftinct from our Infea, and is well known by its Linnsean name 

 Curtula, or Englilh title Chocolate Tip ; yet Fabricius gives an addi- 

 tional reference for the fame fpecies to the nth Plate of Roefel's 



fourth 



