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PLATE LXI. 



PHAL^NA STRAMINEA. 

 Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



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

 when at reft. Fly by night. 



N o c T u A. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Antenrae and tongue deep yellow. Head and thorax covered with 

 long hairs; which, with the fuperior wings, are pale yellow, or bright 

 clay colour; in the middle of the fuperior wing is a kidney-fhaped ipoc 

 of dull grey, enclofed by a dark reddifh brown line, which is united 

 to the anterior margin by another fpot of the fame colour. Near t e 

 exterior margin is a broad obfolete band of pale brown, but where 

 it touches the anterior margin it is darker; within this band are nine 

 white fpots, or points, and between the band and exterior margin of 

 the wing, on the lower edge, is a bright black point ; there are feveral 

 other reddifh brown points fcattered upon the upper wing, near the 

 bafe. The inferior wings are of a yellowifh- white, with a fnade of 

 purple, a dark fpot on the middle, and a pale black, broad border, 

 with a white fringe. 



This elegant fpecies of the No£lua divifion of Moths, appears to 

 be not only a nondefcript, but altogether unknown before ; even to 

 the beft pradical entymologifts : That an infe£l of fuch magnitude 

 Ihould have been unnoticed by Linnaus, or Fabriciusy is not very 

 fmgular, as feveral nondefcripts of a fimilar, and many of an inferior. 



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