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TAB. LXXVI1. 



PHALjENA achatina, 

 dark-clouded tussock moth. 



QUICKC US 



Ph. Bmhyx etingui* crirtata, alii pruaoribos cmcrcU: ftrig* anike alba pofike imerfc&a 

 ami nigro defincntc In ptinc*lo arguH poAiti albo. 



Feeds on various fpecies of Oak, a* well as oil Uw Hickory. It fpun on the 3d of 

 May* and (he moth came out on the 20lh. 



TTitf elegant moth, whidi not unaptly rrfcmblc* an agate or a Mecca ftane, U cridentlY 

 allied to /*. /j^/jjriu of Linnaok which it ihould immediately follow. The black cuned Jinc 

 running longitudinally from tbc oak toward* U*c potlmor angle of the wing b it* ttr>' dif- 

 tinguilhing charader . 



Cramer hu figured a PkiUiu, taken up alfo by Fabociun /'. 3. iG, by the name of 

 atkati**, which U tf/prj of Linnjtu*, though neither of thofc author* icem* to hue bom 

 ft wan: of it* 











