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THE WANDERING MOTH. 



Phalana Errota. 



PLATE LXXV. 



Phalaena Errota. 



THE wings of this curious insect are black, with a 

 sesquitertious brownish orange band running from the 

 centre anterior margins of the superior -wings across 

 both upper and under ones, and a pale blue macular 

 transverse band about the middle of the inferior 

 wings ; the body is reddish brown, and the antennae 

 short and smooth. 



The Wandering Moth inhabits Surinam, where, 

 according to Madame Merian, it is rare. 



