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Cringe ; is large, greenifh with double yellow rings, the firft be- 

 fet each with four ftar-like hairy warts. The filk-bag is yellowifh, 

 and the Silk, fa ftrong, that in Holland it is judged to be better 

 than the common. It coffined Febr. 18. and lay till March 1 1. 

 N. B. This, in fhape, fize and colour, comes near Petiver's large 

 Indian Moth, Gaz. Tab. 8. 17. 148. 1, 2, 3. 



10. Orange-fpotted Hanuk-Moth. Tab. 38. Accipitrina longi- 

 pennis cinerea Surin. undis nigricantibus. This is almoft {"even inches 

 long, and not two broad ; its upper wings finely waved and 

 marked, the lower orange mouldered, the reft, clouded : the body 

 has three remarkable orange fpots on each fide. The caterpillar 

 feeds on the Spanifh Phyfick-Nut ; is tail-horned, fhort -haired, 

 greenifh, with a fcarlet lift on the back, yello.v-fpotted and flant- 

 ftreaked, with a large white one from the horn. It coffined June 



23. hatched Aug. 20. following : its fnout makes a bow or 1 ifr^j 

 to the coffin. Gaz. 145. 9. O. P. M. N. 



11. Peacock-Creft Haivk-Motb. Tab. 42. Accipitrina media 

 Sunn, cinerea corpore luteis Cjf albis maculis ornata. This is a grey 

 waved moth, about four inches long, and one and a half broad ; 

 its lower wings broad lifted. The caterpillar horn-tailed, fmooth 

 and grey, with white flants and eye-fpecks under them. The coffin 

 fcarlet, and bow-fnouted like the laft ; turned Jan. 22. hatched 

 Febr. 16. 



12. Great Sop Hawk-Moth. Tab. 3. Accipitrina major Suri- 

 nam, fufca marmorata, corpore maculato. This is a brown moth, 

 marbled with black and white, the upper part of the lower wings 

 tinged with yellow, the fides of the body fpotted with the fame 

 colour : this was eight inches extended, and not above two deep. 

 The caterpillar large, fmooth, tail-horned, green with white 

 ftreaks : this changed into a coil-fnouted red coffin Aug. 18. hatch- 

 ed Sept. 12. Gaz. 140. 8, 9. 



13. Sour-Sop Hawk-Moth. Tab. 14. Accipitrina minor Su- 

 rinam, fufca, ma?-morata, corpore maculato. This is marbled like 

 the laft, but much lefs, viz. but four inches long, and one broad: 

 the under wings brown, ftreaked with white. The caterpillar 

 fmooth, tail-horned, and moftly green : June 22. it turned into 

 a reddifh crook-fnouted coffin, and mothed Aug. 23. Gaz. 142. 

 5, 6, 7. 10, 11,12. 



14. Surinam Queen-Ha-zvk. Tab. 20. Accipitrina permaxima 

 Surinam, elegant ifime undata. Is a very large fpecious wave-mar- 

 bled moth, about nine inches long and three broad. The cater- 

 pillar above five inches long, and proportionably thick, circled 

 with broad black and narrow green rings, with a white lift on each 

 fide from head to tail, the laft horned, and hair-tufted along the 

 back : it fed on the leaves of the Gambodia-tree ; coffined the end 

 of April, and was covered with an oval filk-bag as big as a hen's 

 egg, which hatched June 3. 



15. Surinam Garden Hawk-Moth. Tab. 39. Accipitrina media 

 Hortenfis marmorata e Surinam. Its upper wings marbled with 

 grey, white and black, juft five inches long. The caterpillar 

 four, finely marked with green, black, white and red ; neither 

 tail-horned, or flanted : about the end of May it fpun or wove a 

 filk-bag over its reddifh coffin, and hatched June 20. 



16. Greenifh. SurinamVmz Hauuk^Moth. Tab. 34. Accipitrina 

 Surin. 7najor "jiridefcens . The body and wings of this are moftly 

 green, the laft near five inches long : the caterpillar rather more, 

 and very thick : it was fwelled near the head and tail, with a black 

 fpot on the top of the laft, and a white fpeck in the middle, which 

 it raifed and fell as often as it breathed. This greedily devoured 

 the leaves of the Blue Grape : it coffined Aug. 26. and hatched 

 Sept. 25. 



17. Grey Surinam Vine Hawk-Moth. Tab. 47. Accipitrina 

 major cinerea e Surinam. This is moftly grey and brown, except 

 the fhoulder of each lower wing above, which are partly green. 

 This and the next are of the fame fize with the laft ; but this, be- 

 ing the female, is fomewhat fhorter, and the cotours lefs beautiful. 



18. Purple Surinam Vine Hawk-Moth. Tab. 47. Accipitrina 

 major purpurafcens e Surinam. This, being the male, is painted 

 with finer and more vivid colours, viz. purplifh and green, with 

 brown intermixed : the coffin of both , much the fame fhape, and 

 reddifh colour, as is the caterpillar, and green with four large yel- 

 low fpots on each fide, and a long tail-horn : it is fmooth, and 

 three inches in length : thefe feed on the leaves of the White 

 Grape. Both thefe coffined and hatched at the fame time, viz. 

 between the middle of May and 6th of June. 



SECT. II. Oculated Moths. 



19. Dun, Surinam, Eyed Moth. Tab. 6. Phalena Oculata Su- 

 rinam, fufca. Is near four inches wide, (i.e.) between the tips : 

 it has a white thread, or flant lift, through the midft of each up- 

 per wing, with two large black eyes circled with yellow on each 

 lower wing : its caterpillar red, ftreaked with yellow, thick fct 

 with hairy briftles : Aug. 4. this changed into a filk-bag, and 

 hatched 30th. This and the next feed on a fort of Thorny Night- 

 Shade, called there Maccai. Gaz. 140. 10, ii, 12, 13, 14, 15. 



20. Marble, Surinam, Eyed Moth. Tab. 6. Phakna Oculata 

 Sur. marmorata. Is about three inches wide, finely marbled with 

 brown, white, and a call of yellow : the tip of each upper wing 

 is fpotted like a heart, and the midft of each under feems ocula- 

 ted. The caterpillar yellow, fpotted with black ; the head and tail 

 all black : this is hairy like the laft, but with fhorter briftles : 

 thefe have a peculiar quality, in forming coils or rings, by join- 

 ing head and tail one to another, and quickly return again if part- 

 ed. Changed July 20. into a fmall iilk-coflin, and hatched Sept. 



24. Gaz. 140. 13. 



21. Oculated Banana Moth. Tab. 12. Phalena Oculata Stir 1 . 

 campo nigro. Four inches wide : each upper wing has three 

 broad waves of yellowifh and brown, with a black field in the 

 middle ; the lower have two large eyes, fpotted and circled with 

 black, in a yellow ground with pale edging. The caterpillar four 

 inches long, of a pale green, thick let with hairy briftles : this 

 feeds on the Banana leaver : it changed into a lilk-bag April 22. 

 hatched May 10. Gaz. 141. 20, 21, 19. 



22. Oculated Lilly-Moth. Tab. 22. Phalena Oculata Sur. tri- 

 fafciata. This is fcarce to be diftinguifhed from the laft in fhape, 

 fize, or undulations : it has a fmall fpeck on each fide its bodv 

 about the fhoulders, infteadof the black field the other has in the 

 midft of the upper wing. The caterpillar feems the fame, in make 

 and briftles, as No. 20. Tab. 6. but the laft are very ftiff, and 

 the body fpotted with blue and yellow circles : it feeds on the Red 

 Lilly; filk-bagged June 4. hatched 30. G. 143. 6, 7. 14, 15, 16. 



SECT. Ill- Middling Moths. 



23. White Surinam Silk-Moth. Tab. 14. Phalena albida fertci- 

 fera vulg. facie, e Surinam. This is very like our European Silk- 

 Moth ; but the caterpillar, which is yellowifh and hairy, feeds on 

 the leaves of Sour Sop : it turned into its filk-bag Dec. 3. and 

 hatched Jan. 24. Gaz. 142. 10, 11, 12. 5, 6, 7. 



24. Oil-Tree Moth. Tab. 30. Phalena media pallida Surinam- 

 enfis. This, in fize, fhape, and colour, refembies the laft. The ca- 

 terpillar is black, marked with yellow: it often covers half its body 

 in a dead leaf; and when it wants food, it half exerts itfelf, like 

 a fnail from its fhell : thefe hang themfelves to the plants they 

 feed on, with many ftrings at each end, like a hammock. Gaz. 

 144. 6, 27. 



25. Small, Pale, Mujk-Moth. Tab. 42. Phalena minor albida 

 Surinamenfis. Very like the laft, but much lefs, and whitifh 

 with a dark fpeck on each upper wing. The caterpillar, green 

 ftriped with black, turned into a fcarlet chryfalis March 20. and 

 hatched April 2. 



26. White, Spotted Surinam Cotton-Moth. Tab. 10. Phalena 

 ?nedia Sur. alba, circuits nigricantihus. Its outer wings near four 

 inches wide, whitifh, and fprinkled with hairy-like feathers, with 

 a yellow lift along its back, and one on each fide : its horns are 

 pied and jointed. The caterpillar black, with red fpots, out of 

 which arife ftellated hairs, or briftles : this coffined March 20. and 

 mothed April 28. Gaz. 14!. 7. 11. 



27. Pied Waved Guana Silk-Moth. Tab. 19. Phalena media 

 alba Sur. undis ftriifque nigris. The body of this is pale, with 

 black rings ; the wings between two and three inches wide, whitifh, 

 with black ftreaks and waves. The caterpillar three inches long, 

 and one broad ; white, with black waved rings and many red fpots : 

 out of thefe grow long-haired plumes : this turned Oft. 20. into 

 a large egg-fized filk-bag, hatched Jan. 22. 



28. Small Pied Cacao-Moth. Tab. 26. Phalena minor alba, 

 Surin. nigro njariata. This fs pied like the laft, but much lefs, 

 and differently marked : its caterpillar fmooth, blackifh, with 

 red ftreaks and white marks : they feed cn the leaves of Cacao : 

 it chryfalifed March 26. mothed April 20. Gaz. 144. 10, 11. 



29. Reddifh Water-Melon Silk-Moth. Tab-. 1-5. Phalena media 

 Surinam, rufefcens. This in face and fize refembies our common 

 Silk-Moth, but is reddifh : the caterpillar of a very odd fhape, 

 fomewhat fquarifh, at each end blue, and green in the middle, 

 with flimy feet ; its other parts noc fo eafily to be defcribed by 

 words, as conceived by the figure ; which made our curious ob- 

 fervatrefs expeft from it as ftrange an infect : but fhe confeffes it 

 was not the firft time fhe was deceived, fince the oddeft caterpil- 

 lars have often produced common changes, and the meaneft fome- 

 times the fineft butterflies and moths. 



30. Small, Reddifh Pied, Silk-Moth. Tab. 28. Phalena minor 

 Surinam, e rubra alboque ?nixta. The middle ftate alfo of this 

 moth, like the laft, was very uncouth, viz. more like a fmall crab 

 than a caterpillar, and is faid to be poifonous and burning by 

 touching it. June 1 1. it chryfalifed into a fmall round filk-bag, 

 mothed the 27th. Gaz. 144. 18, 19, 20. 



31. Small Oculated Eave-Moth. Tab. 27. Phalena minor Suri- 

 nam, flwuefcens, fufco mixta. This is a fmall yellowifh moth, 

 mixed with brown, and has two eye-fpots in the midft of each 

 upper wing, which ftand (helving like the top of a houfe. Its ca- 

 terpillar fmooth, brown, and ftreaked with red : this turned into 

 a fmall brown chryfalis Sept. 24. mothed Oft. 12. G. 144. 14. 



32. Small, Marbled, Surinam Eave-Moth. Tab. 44. Phalena 

 minor Sur. cinerea marmorata. This has the fhape of the laft, but 

 much lefs, and marbled with grey : the caterpillar fmooth, 

 brown, and ftreaked : it turned March 26. into a filk-bag, mothed 

 April 10. Gaz. 146. 4, 5, 6. 19, 20, 21. 



SECT. IV. Small Silk-Moths, and others. 



33. Narrow Tawny Silk-Moth. Tab. 16. Gaz. 142. 8, 9. 

 Phalena minor fulva, fafciis anguftis. This fmall tawny fly, with 

 narrow waved girdles, webbed April 5. hatched 20. from a final!, 

 fwift, reddifh caterpillar. 



34. Long 'Fawny Silk-Moth. Tab. 54. Phalena minor oblonga 

 Surinam, fulva, ftriis fufcis. Something like the laft, but nar- 

 rower, and with fewer ftrea'1-0 : the caterpillar yellow-ringed, 

 and ftreaked black, brown head; chryfalifed April 2. into along 

 filk-bag, mothed 14. Gaz. 148. io, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17. 



35. Small, Blue-freaked, Mufk Silk -Moth. Tab. 42. Gaz. 146. 

 10, 11, 12, 13, ,14, 15. Phalena. minor fulva Surinam, ilriis cce- 

 rulefcentibus. From a blackifh caterpillar, with a led head and 



tail, 



