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aace, that if its larva bad hot been diftinftly afcertained to be one. of the 

 loopers, we mould have ftill confidered it of the Bombyx kind. Our 

 prefent infect bears fotfre refemblance aifo to the fpecies Ilirtaria but 

 is fnialler. 



Mr. Drury bred the two fexes of this extremely rare infeft many 

 years ago. Thefe fpecimens are ftill preferred in the cabinet formed : 

 by that eminent collector, and are the only examples of the kind we 

 have ever ieen ; neither is the fpecies, which we believe to be per- 

 fectly new, in the pofi'efiion of any other collector within ditr know- 

 ledge. 



Both fexes are represented- in the annexed plate* 



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