THE GOLDEN YELLOW MOTH. 



Phalcena Flaviolata. 



PLATE xxxn. 



Phalacna flaviolata, Cramer Des. de Pap. i. p. 139. pi. Ixxxviii 

 fig. C Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 867. No. 240 Phalaeiu 

 Geometrae, Seba, iv. t. 7. fig. 7, and 8, and 1. 13, fig. 3 and 4 



THE upper under wings, and body of this moth 

 are of a very rich golden yellow, with a very broa< 

 border of deep black, irregularly vandyked on it 

 anterior edge ; the shoulders and head are black 

 the antennee short and filiform ; and the eye* 

 scarlet. 



The under side the same as the upper side. 



This moth inhabits India. 



