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THE LETTERED MOTH. 



Phalaena Litterana. 

 PLATE LXXX. 



Phalaena Litterana, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. p. 876. Fab. 

 Ent. Syst. iii. p. 2. Donovan's Brit. Ins. pL 355, fig. 2. 



THE upper wings are rhombic, and of a leek green 

 colour, spotted and patched with black ; the under 

 wings are of a pale fawn colour ; the thorax is of the 

 same colour as the upper wings, and the abdomen 

 like those of the under wings ; the antennae taper 

 from the base to the tips. The wings are all fringed 

 round. 



This rare and beautiful little insect is a native 

 of Britain, and is not quite six-eighths of an inch in 

 breadth. It is not unlike the Phalaena Squamma. 



