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vourite food, will often eat other plants* 



Thus theSiik-worm, for want of mul- 



. berry leaves, will eat thofe of lettuce, 



though it will not thrive fo well on 



them. 



Many other inftances of the inven- 

 tion of trivial names will be met with 

 in the Syflema Naturae, particularly 

 among the Butterflies and Moths. To 

 prevent confufion from the great num- 

 ber of fpecies which confritute the ge- 

 nus of Phalana, they are diftributed 

 into feclions, and diiKnguifhed by the 

 terms of Bombyces, Nodlute, Geome- 

 ir<z, Tortrices, Pyralides, Tine^, and 

 Aluciiie. The Bombyces and Noc~ 

 tu#, which arefo much'alike, that the 

 females of the Bombyces are with great 

 difficulty diiYinguimed from the Noc- 

 tua, are named promifcuoufly. 



All 



