66 PLATE CCCCXCIIT. 



Phal^xa Berbf.rata. Der Gauerdoni Spanner. Kkem> 

 Beytr. Natarf. Inf. Gefch. p. 32. n. 9. 



This pretty Moth is produced, according to Fabricius, from a fea-> 

 brous larva of a brown colour, varied with rufous and white, and 

 which, according to the continental writers in general, as well as Fa- 

 bricius, is found on the common barberry, berberis vulgaris. The 

 larva we have not feen, but, from a minute defcription and plate in the 

 latter part of the Supplement of Kleeman's Heytraege, we are enabled 

 to ipeak of it in more precife terms than Fabricius, and alfo to defcrjbe 

 its pupa. The larva is of the looper kind, and rather thick in pro- 

 portion to the length ; of a browniih colour, with black dots, and 

 two fhort black parallel lines at the pofterior extremity, extending the 

 length of the three or four laft fegments. The pupa is chefnut brown, 

 rather inclining to an ovate form, and is inclofed in a fpinning woven 

 between two or three leaves, which are drawn nearly together for that 

 purpofe. ' 



The fpecies occurs in the winged irate, as a native of Britain, in 

 feveral cabinets, though we have never uriderftood it to be common. 

 We have named it the Barberry Moth, in allufion to the plant on 

 which the larva ufually feeds : among the Englilh colle&ors, it bears 

 two or more indefinite appellations. 



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