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PLATE LVIIJ. 



FIG. L I. 



PHAL^NA PRUNIELLA, 



Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



P H A L iE N A. 



Antennae taper from the bafe. Wings, in general, contraded 

 when at reft. Fly by night. 



Tinea. 

 SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 



Superior wings brown, inclining to purple ; from the interior mar- 

 gin is extended a broad white dafh along the pofterior margin, nearly 

 two thirds of its length j but is interrupted near the extremity by a 

 fquare fpot of dark brown. Inferior wings grey. Head and thorax 

 white. Abdomen grey. 



We have copied the name Pniniella^ from that celebrated work of 

 Clerk, faid to be executed under the immediate infpedion of Linnaus 

 himfelf: He has figured it in the nth Plate, Fig. 4. But the great 

 fcarcity of that work, there not being twelve copies in this country, can 

 have contributed in a very fmall meafure to its being generally known ; 

 which indeed is the fa6t, as it does not appear any writer fmce that 

 . time has figured, or even defcribed it. Some were, perhaps, ignorant 

 of its having been figured in Clerk's Plates, which however, could 

 not have been the cafe with Lmnaus ; but we cannot find that he has 

 defcribed it, or referred to Clerk's figure in any part of his works ; 



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