PLATE IIL 



PHALiENA BUCEPHALA, 



Buff-tip Moth. 



Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHJRJCTER, » 



Antennze taper from the bafe to the apex, and are fetaceous. 

 Wings in general deflected when at reft. Fly by night. No Trunk. 

 Wings reverfed, i. e. firft Wings horizontal and fecond ere6l. 



SPECIFIC CHJRJCTER. 



Antennae feathered. Firft Wings grey, with tvvo double tranfverfe 

 brown wave?, and a large yellowifli brown fpot at the extreme angle. 

 Second Wings plain, light yellow, length fcarce one inch. Cater- 

 pillar hairy, yellow with black fpots. On Oaks, Afti, &c. — Berken- 

 hout. 



The delicate aflemblage of beautiful down which cloath the upper 

 wings of the BufF-tip Moth is its chief recommendation j the hiftory 

 affords but little for obfervation, it is hatched from the egg in Ji/gujl^ 

 and in June following the fly is perfe-ft. 



Its beauty avails not the race of birds v/ho purfue them from 

 neceffity, or from an innate delue of cruelty and devaftatiou; and 



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