THE MOTHS. 
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The phalsena of the filk worm, bombyx moris, fre- 
quents the leaves of the mulberry, upon which it is uni- 
vcrfally known to feed. It is one of thole infects that 
has defervedly attracted the notice of almoft every natu- 
ralift ; and to a particular defeription of it we direct the 
reader in the note below *. 
The moll beautiful of the Englijh infers arc the fol- 
lowing phalxnse, viz the large emerald, or geometra pa- 
pilionaria of Linnxus f. The thorax, wings and abdo- 
men, are of a lovely pea-green ; the wings are decorated 
with fmall indented bars, and marginated with a fringe of 
golden yellow. 
The peach blofibm : The head and thorax of this infe& 
are dark brown ; the fupertor wings are of the fame co- 
lour ; but each is ornamented with five fpots, of a pale 
pink, or rofe -colour, and appear very like fmall rofes 
painted on the wings : The abdomen and inferior wings 
are of a fine pale brown colour : The caterpillar feeds 
On rafpberry leaves ; changes into a chryfalis in June a 
and in July comes forth a moth 
The phalsena which in its larva Gate is deftru&ive to 
woollen doth, is of a narrow oblong fliape, having the 
Wings railed towards the extremities : The head of this 
infe& is white ; the fuperior wings black towards the 
bafe, and white as they approach the tips : The inferior 
Vol. 111. 3 N wings 
* It is named in the Fauna Swecica, phalxnapcdimcornis.boaibyx dicta. 
Aldrovandus delcribes it, InfctSt. p, 280 & feq. Johnfton, Inf. Mouffetg 
$• 181- M. de Merian, Eutop. .Lifter in Goedart, p. 82. Charlcton 
onom. p 40. Albin, Engl. Infects, p. 60. Rcaumur,Tom. II. 
t Syftcma Nat. Ord. III. Gen iii. 
1 Vide Harris’s expofition of Engliih Infcdls, p. 53, where many escefc 
lent drawings of the Engliih infects be feep. 
