PLATE I. 



PHALiENA PAVONIA, 

 Emperor Moth. 



Lepidoptera. 



Infe(3:s of the Lepidoptera Order are divided into three Genera, 

 Papilio, Sphinx, and Phal-SNA, Buttcrjlles^ Hawk Moths, and 

 Moths. The characters of the two former hereafter : thofe of the 

 Phalaena ar e 



Generic Character. 



The antennae fetaceous, decreafing in fize from the bafe to the 

 apex. The wings, when at reft, are generally defleded. They fly 

 in the night. 



Specific Character. 



Antennae feathered. No trunk. Wings expanded, horizontal, 

 rounded, entire, with a large eye in the center of each ; the firft red- 

 brown waved ; the fecond orange. The antennae of the male are 

 broader, and the wings of the female larger, waved with black and 

 white and bordered with yellow. Caterpillar green or yellow, fpinous, 

 on thorns and brambles. Length of the moth one inch. — Berken. Out. 



The conformity and likenefs which prevails between the male and 

 female throughout the greater part of the animal fyftem, cannot how- 

 ever in infedts be implicitly depended on ; the difference in many is 

 fuch as 'even to miflead fome very accurate entomologifts, the 

 illuftrious Linnaeus not excepted. In this fpecies it is not fo great as 



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