TAB. C l.
PH AL I ENA C L EMA T A R I A .
G R E A T H O O K -T IP L O O P E R M O T H .
C L E M A T IS R O S E A . N O V A S P .t
.......................... R E T IC U L A T A . W A L T . FLO. C A RO L .
ROSE-COLOURED VIRGIN'S BOWER.
4. GEOMETRM PECTINICORNE5,
P h . Geometra peCtinicomis, alis fuberofis: omnibus grifeo-flavefcentibus pun&o difci nigro;
ftriga commUiii lutefcehte apice hamata.
T he food o f this caterpillar is th e climbing plan t here represented, as we ll as Alder
and Saflafras. I t lpun on the 2 3 d o f June, and came o u t on th e lo th o f Ju ly The
fly, though n o t common, may be taken in th e night lucking the blofloms o f plum
trees both in Georgia and Virginia.
This fpecies is next akin to Ph. Syringaria of Linnaeus, a rare Englilh Moth commonly
called the Richmond Beauty; they are however fufficiently diftinCt in their perfect ftate, and
their larva are very different.
The Clematis it feeds upon feems to be hitherto nondefcript, of which we have feen a fpe-
cimen from the Kew garden in Sir Jofeph Banks’s collection. It may be charaCterifed
Foliis fimplidbus pirmatifque cirrhojis integerrimis, pet alis lanceolatis, feminibus caudifque gla-
briufculis.
This might certainly be taken for the C. reticulata, of Walter’s Flora Caroliniana, p. 15 6,
copied into Gmelin’s Syftema, p. 8 7 3 , if the laft-mentioned writer only were confided in; for
he has omitted a part of the character caudis plumojiffimis, and the reft agrees exactly with our
plant. But in the Kew fpeoimen,. which, though its leaves are more acute' and fom’etimcs
lobed,. we can fcarcely think different from that before us, the large- comprefled feeds are only
flightly downy as well as their cauda. We muft leave the abfolate determination of this
point till we are poffeffed of better materials to decide it. The bright red colour of the
flowers is unufual in the genus of Clematis.