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ot the Infers about Pans, defcribes it as the moft common of 
aii^ with them ; that it is found on moft of their trees, which it 
often ft rips entirely of their foliage in the fpring * 
Our great naturahft Ray alfo defcribes this Caterpillar in his 
Hijipna Inferior uni f. It is likewife figured and defcribed by 
RoesKl, a German writer. Linnaeus has either omitted or 
confouiided it with the Pbahena Chryforrhaa , or Tel/ow-tail 
Moth, with which it has a great affinity. 
Theie authorities will be fufficient to ffiew, that it is no new 
Infeft, and that its ravages are not unufual. It muft, liowever, 
be allowed that they are, and have been the two laft years' 
uncommonly great, and unufually extenfive. 
k Whe&i Infers are multiplied in this extraordinary manner, it 
is feldom that they extend through a whole country : the pre- 
cife tradt which thefe occupy I have had no opportunity of ob- 
ferving. On the Kingfton Road I traced them as far as Putney 
Common, on the farther part of which, on the trees about 
Coomb Wood and Richmond Park, a web was not to be feen. I 
remarked, that they were extremely numerous to the diftance of 
about eight miles on the Uxbridge Road. On the Great Weftern 
Road they terminated about the Star and Garter leading to 
Kew; from whence to Alton in Hampffiire, not one was vifi- 
ble; and I have received undoubted information from other 
quarters, that the deftrudion they occafion is by no means 
general. 
Sa Chenille a feize pattes. C’eft la plus commune tie toutes. Elle eft 
vetue , de couleur jaunfcre, et elle vient fur prefque tous les arbres, qu’elle 
cepou.He fouvent cntiercment dcs ]es printems. Gfoffkoy Hijl. abrL i„ 
tnjefles qui fe trouvent aux Environ^de Parts , p . 117, 
t Thus, Eruca longis pilisfulvis birfuta pulla, pm'iiu ntbh et duolus rubris in 
JMO dor Jo varia , p. 347, 
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