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PLATE CCCXXVII. 



FIG. I. 



PHALtENA leporina. 



Miller of Mansfield Moth. 

 Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas taper from the bafe. Wings In general dejflexed when 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



s r N o N r M s. 



Wings deflexed, white, fprinkled with forked black fpots : no 

 fpots on the abdomen. 



Phal.t.na Leporina : alisdeflexisalbls: pun6tis ramofis, abdomine 

 inmaculato. Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 838. 9. Fn. Sv* 

 1 176. — Fah. Ent. SyJi. T. 3.^. I. p. 453. 144. 

 Dcgeer Inf. i. tab. \1. fig. 10. il. 17, 

 Fyejl. Maga%. 2. tab. i- fig. I — 3. 



We cannot account for the very abfurd name Englifh Aurelians 

 have given to this Infe6l. It probably originated in fome trivial 

 event, which has been long fince forgotten, but as the Infe6l will be 



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