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PLATE CCCXXVIII. 



PHALiENA FAG I. 



Lobster Moth. 

 Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennss taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed when 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS. 



Wings reverfed, reddifh afh colour, with two incurvated yellowilh 

 lines acrofs the firll pair. 



Phaljena Fag I : alis reverfis rufo cinereis : fafciis duabus lineari- 

 bus luteis flexuofis, Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 816. 30. 

 — i77. Sv. iiT^,— Fab. Ent. SyJi. T. 3. /. i. 

 p. 422.//>. 51. 

 Albiii. Inf. tab. 58. 

 Wien. Verz, 63. 2. 

 Roef. Inf. 3. tab. I2. 

 ASt. holm. 1749. 132. tab. 4. fg. 10. 14. 



The trivial name of Lobfter Moth, which this fpecies has acquired 

 from the fingular form of its larva, cannot be unfamiliar to the Englifh 

 Aurelian, though the Moth itfelf is in the poflefllon of few. The larva 



was 



