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33. The beautiful -white and blue Moth (h) is fometi'mes obfervcd 

 by the fides of moid groves, and near hedges, .under the made 

 of willows, and other aquatic trees, but is not common. It 

 meafures between the tips of the wings, extended, three inchest 

 The face and head are large, covered with a thick and beautiful 

 plumage, white, fpotted with a deep blue. The upper wings 

 from the infection to the middle are elegantly marbled with the 

 fame colours ; and from the middle to the extremities of a 

 bright grey, pellucid, and full of nerves of a ttraw-colour, 

 fomewhat prominent. The under wings are alfo a bright grey, 

 tranfparent, and full of the fame kind of nerves. The body is 

 adorned with broad circles of a deep blue and white, alternately, 

 interfered by two blue longitudinal lines ; the plumage raifed, 

 and looking like the. fringed margin of a rich robe. The legs 

 are adorned with long bright white feathers to the very tips, and 

 with a feries of deep blue fpots. The blue vanimes into a black, 

 and the white into a grey colour, by being expofed to. rains and 

 weather, which are as injurious to the beauty of this fair part 

 of the creation, as to an Anemone, a Ranunculus, an Auricula, or 

 other admired flowers in gardens. I have therefore given de- 

 fciptions of fuch only, whofe plumage and colouring were in 

 their native gaiety, in their full beauty and perfection, without 

 blemifhes. I met with this moth in July, 1761, among fome tall 

 herbage by the fide of the grove, on the left hand, within the 

 gate, in going to Nun-wick-Hall. 



(h) Phalzna major pulcherrima, alis amplis; exterioribus cinereis maculis & lineii elc- 

 ganter depitis. Raj. Inf. p. 153. n. 5. Lift. Goed. p. 59. t. 20. n. 6. c. Phalasna 

 pedtinicornis elinguis ; alis deflexis albidis diaphanis ; vafis obfcuris. Linn. Faun. Suec. 

 p. 25-2. n. 819. VINULA. ibid. Albin. Inf. t. n. f. 15. Puss-MoTH. Wilkcs. Inf. 



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