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TA B. LXXIX. 



PHAL/ENA LEUCQSTIGMA. 



PALE VAPOURER MOTH. 





QUERCUS AQUATIC* AVi\ U0H1\ KFJl\ I\ x 3S?1 

 oak nuKscr 



Pll. Bmfa ding**, iHj planned* grifei*: prtmoribm Arig* lindane nigri* lunula 



anguli poilicii fvjuina aplera. 



The caterpilUr feeds on the Oak Runner, and otber Oik*. !t fpun itftlf up 

 April 26th in a pok vrilowidi web, ami the Hy appeared May Kith. The famfc 

 ha* ray (bill winp, or rather only rudiment* of wings, like the Kngliih Vapour* 

 cm fPhalawt mtiqm ct ganqfllgmaj; yrt tin larger rhrtblu here repttfented 

 belong* to (he female, fo much bigger is her abdomen than that of the male. Tbii 

 U alio a Virginian inlcci. but i* not very common. 



Brery thing mews the affinity of thi* with the European tnothf jurt mentioned, and it 

 would be infrrtcd immolate!) before P. *tfi^ in the UwiaMn fjilau. Wr do not find any 

 author ha* notion! ttiit fpecic* nor the two preceding. 



ThU Oak ran fcarorly be referred lo any thing elfc than the Water Oak, of which || i, 

 probably a rarictyi at Jcafl we hue not material* fuirkicnt to cJiara&rife it U a dillinri 

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