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TAB. LXII.
P H A LÆ N A VIRGO.
L A R G E A M E R I C A N T I G E R M O T H .
MIMOSA MICROPHYLLA. A IT . HORT. KEW. ED. 2. INED.
P R IC K L Y R E D M IM O SA ,
P h . Bombyx elinguis, alls deflexis atris: riyulis nervifque luteo-albidis ; pofticis lui vis
.jnigro maculatis.
Phalæna Virgo. Linn. Sj/fi. Nat. 820. Clerci. 1c. t. 42. f . 5.
Bombyx Virgo. Fabr. Entom. emend. V. 4. 472.
. F e e d s on lèverai fpecies o f Mimofa, commonly called the fenfible briar, pouting
briar, &c. as w ell as on.fome other plants. I t Ipun up Ju n e lo th , and on th e 20th
.o f S eptember the moth came out. In Virginia it Ipins in April, and comes forth in
.May. This.is not a common kind. T h e caterpillar w hen kept in confinement is
a p t to die before it changes to a chryfalis.
Clerck’s figure of this infeét is very bad, but it can be intended'for no other. He repre-
fents the abdomen red above and black below; and Linnæus feems to have defcribed it fo from
. his figure, for that defcription is not applicable to our fpecies, nor any one of thofe neareft
allied to-it.
The plant in the plate is a fpecies of Mimofa, .which will appear in the fécond edition of
;the Hortus Kewenfis, and for the following fpecific character and fynonym -of which we are
obliged to Mr. Dryander.
Mimofa microphylla, undique aculeata, folus bipnnatis oâlojugis : fedecimjugis, capitulis axilla-
ribus pedunculatis folitariis binifve.
M. Intfia. Walt. Flo. Carolin. 252.