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“HF SMALL GREEN OAK MOTH. The Caterpillar feeds on the 
Oak, and fometimes fuch Numbers of them are produced at the Beginning of May, 
that they, ina Manner, ftrip the Oak-trees of their Leaves. They are enabled, by the Help 
of a Spining, which they faften after the Manner of the Spider, to let themfelyes down from 
one Bough to another, and from thence to the Ground, if they have a mind. They change 
into the Chryfalis State in a curled Form within the Oak-leaves, (which they wrap over 
them, and faften together by their Web) and, after remaining fo for about fourteen Days, the 
Fly is bred. If you beat the Seg of the Oak-trees es may take Plenty of this 
Moth in the Day-time. 
The Yellow Strip’d Tulip 
Tulipa hortenfis flore luteo variegato, 
| Sef ed Oh ot Vi. Ct. tdi: 6, 
HE SMALL ERMINE MO a H. The Caterpillar that, produces this 
Moth is as common as thofe juft mentioned, I have feen a Hedge-row of  White-thorn, 
at the End of May and at the Beginning of ‘fume, the Leaves ot which have been eaten 
almoft up by thefe Caterpillars, They feed alfo on Black-thorn, Fruit-trees, &c. when 
they are preparing to change to Chryfalis, they get together in Numbers, and fpin a large 
tranfparent Web, within which they faften themfelves by the Tail, and undergo: their Change. 
They remain in this Condition for about three Weeks; The Moths come forth in Fung 
and Fuly, and are very common about moft Hedges, : 
See Albin, P. 70. Reaumur, Pl, 12.. Pag, 208. Vol. 2. 
The Orange-Peach, with its Bloffom, 
Perfica, dura carne buxea, C. B Pin, 
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HE BROOM-MOTH. The Food of this Caterpillar is the Leaves of Broom, 
on which found Plenty of them, from the 20th to the 3oth of September, near Shooter’s 
Fill in Kent ; they were of the Bignefs exprefs’d in the Plate. The Green ones produced 
male Flies. They all went into the Earth at the Beginning of Offober, and, at the Be- 
ginning 
