LEPIDOPTERA. 
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They fuck the ne£lar of flowers with their tongues, 
though they feldom fettle upon them. 
Moff of them undergo their metamorphofis in the 
earth ; their chryfalids are obteftas, but enclofed in a 
kind of covering or web, compofed of coarfe mate¬ 
rials, in which particular they differ entirely from 
the preceding genus. 
The bodies of moff of the caterpillars are fmooth, 
or without hair, and have a horn or fpine on the 
hinder parts. Hazuk-moths . 
GENUS 3.—PHALENA, MOTH. 
Antennae leffen towards the point, wings gene¬ 
rally defleaed when at reft 5 they fly in the night. 
The chryfalids are either concealed in the ground, 
or proieded from the inclemency of the weather by 
a covering, which fome of them, as the filk-worm, 
compofe of the richeft materials ; they are either fim- 
ple, or have a kind of hook at their extremity. 
Phale.no. sarcitella , or cloatns-moth. Phalena 
tapetzella are very deftruaive to woollen cloths, 
forming for themfelves. a covering, in the aurelia 
ftate, from them.. 
CATERPILLARS; 
