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PLAT ER Ts, 
PHALENA PADELLA. 
SmaLyL Ermine Mota. 
. LEPIDOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne taper from the bafe, Wings in general deflexed when 
at reft, 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Tinea. Firft wings lead colour, with about twenty black dots : 
fecond ones brown. 
Puarana (Tinea) Papexta : alis primoribus lividis: punctis 20 
nigris pofterioribus fufcis. Linn. Fn. Suec. 1364. 
—Gmel. Linn. Syft. Nat. 2586. Sp. 351. 
Phalena Padella feeds on the white-thorn, black-thorn, and on 
fruit trees. In May the caterpillars are hatched, and as they live in 
focieties of hundreds, or even thoufands, by their united induftry they 
fpin a web fpacious enough to contain the family, and therein they : 
-affume their feveral forms; early in June they become chryfalides, 
and in about fourteen days after that change the moths appear. 
The caterpillars of the Phalana Ped-lla and Evsnymelia are almoft 
ever found in the fame fociety, and many circumftances have been 
advanced 
