66 Pica Te LXI. 
- fize, are to be feen in almoft every cabinet; but that the {pecies fhould 
have efcaped the refearches of the moft eminent collectors, is rather 
aftonifhing. 
We have fought every information which our conne@tion would 
permit; and from the refult we fcarcely hefitate to pronounce the 
infect of a nondefcript fpecies,.and our fpecimen to be perfectly 
unique; at leaft ic is a newly-difcovered acquilition to many fcientific - 
entymologitts. 
The original, whence the figure has. been copied, is in the collec- 
tion of the author; it was taken in a lane leading immediately from 
the wood at Tottenham, the laft week in June, 1793. It was dif- 
covered in the evening, on a blade of grafs; and, from its wet ap- 
pearance, as well as exquifite prefervation, it had certainly juft 
emerged from its chryfalis. 
The Caterpillar may be fuppofed to be an underground feeder, and 
to fubfift on the roots of grafs,°&c. or one of that kind which comes 
enly above the furface of the earth in the night. 
