fe) 
L. 1, Cu, 1 V. : Ct. 3, 5. o 5 
HE WILD PINE-TREE LAPPIT-MOTH. Mtr. Rofe/ informs. 
us, That the Caterpillars of this curious Fly feed on the Pinus fylvefiris, or W1 LD 
Pine: That they are full fed in the Month of Fume, at which Time they change to Chry- 
fals, within fach a Spinning as is reprefented in the Plate ; and, after lying in that State three 
Weeks the Moths appear. ; = 
About the Middle of September, 1748, I took one of thefe Caterpillars wpon a White Thorn 
Buth, near Richmond Park ; which is fill alive this 20th Day of Fanuary 1748-9, though 
it has eat nothing, that I know of, fince it has been in my Cuftody. It remains ftretched out, 
in the Manner of the Lappit-Gaterpillar reprefented at the Letter a of the firft Plate of this 
Section ; and J do not think it will begin to feed until there are Buds of Black or White Thorn 
to give it, This is the only Caterpillar of the Kind that I have known taken in England. 
—For the Drawings exhibited in my Plate, I am obliged to Mr. Rofe/. 
See Rofel, Cl. 2. Tab. 59. 
The Wild Pine-Tree. 
Pinus [plocfiris. Cc. B. Pin. 
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