Bei | 
© thet, duck ci tte 
Pil A AN A AU ROE Ge AG 
YeLttow Tait Motu. 
LEPIDOPTERA, 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne taper from the bafe: wings in general deflected when at 
reft, Fly by night. 
Se Cie MOH aR Ce iL. 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
White ; extremity of the abdomen yellow. 
BomBYX AURIFLUA: alis albis: primoribus fubtus cofla fufea 
ano barbato luteo, Fabr. Mant. Inf. 2. p. 125. 
n. 145. 
PHALZNA (Bombyx) CuRYSORRH@A. Linn, Sxp. Nat, 
en 
Linneus confounded the Yellow Tail Moth, with another kind 
known among colleétors of Englifh InfeGts by the name of the 
Brown Tail Moth ; an infeé&t which it may be recolleéted appeared 
in fuch prodigious numbers in the year 1780, as to fpread the utmoft 
confterna:ion throughout the vicinity of the Metropolis ; the credulous 
believing them to be the certain prelude of a famine :—sThe larve of, 
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