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very great ; the most remarkable period recorded, at which great de- 
vastation was occasioned among the trees in this country by this 
larvae, was in 1782. 
In the first volume of Westwood and Humphrey's Moths, page 
91, is the following: — ''It feeds on various plants, especially 
White-thorn, in June, and has at times become so remarkably abun- 
dant as to cause a serious panic to the Londoners, especially in 1782, 
when prayers were offered up in the Churches against the enemy ; 
and the churchwardens and overseers of the neighbouring villages, 
after ordering rewards for collecting these caterpillars, attended to see 
them burnt by bushels." 
Note. — The foregoing remarks, cited from West. & Hum.'s work, 
are correctly applied by them to the right insect, P. aurijiua ; but the 
descripton is that of the allied species P. chrysorrhcea. 
Family— LITHOSID^, Steph. 
Gen. IMCIX.TOCKRXSTA, Huh. 
112. DI. miniata, Forst. 
Phalcena miniata, Forst. Nov. Spe. Insect, cent. i. 75. — Wood. Ind. Ent. 
t. 8, fig. 92. 
Miltochrista miniata, West. <fe Hum. Brit. Moth. i. pi. 19, fig. 22. — Staint. 
Man. i. 136. 
Not uncommon. 
App. — May and June. 
Loc. — Milbrook ; St. Germans ; Liskeard ; Tavistock ; Bickleigh ; 
Western-Mills ; Ivybridge ; Totnes ; — Torquay, Dr. B. ; Exeter, 
E. P. ; Barnstaple, G. F. M. 
Gen. Z.ITKOSIA, Fah. 
113. Zi. complana, Lin. 
PhalcBua comj)lana, Lin. Sys. Nat. ii. 840. 
Lithosia depressa, West. & Hum. Brit. Moth. i. pi. 20, fig. 14. — Staint. 
Man. i. 138. 
Local and rare. 
App. — July and August. 
Loc. — Whitsand Cliffs ; — Fordlands, near Exeter, E. P. ; Barn- 
staple, G. F. M. 
This insect is confined to the coast, in this neighbourhood. Its 
larvce may be found feeding on lichens, growing on cliff's and slopes 
that are inclined to the sea. 
