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PLATE CCCXXXI. 



PHAL^NA DELPHINII. 



Phase-blossom Moth. 

 Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed when 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS, 



Thorax crefted. Wings deflexed, firft pair purple with two broad 

 tranfverfe whitilh bars, fecond pair pale brown. 



Phal^NA Delphinii : criftata alis deflexis purpurafcentibiis : faf- 

 ciis duabus albidis, pofticis obfcuris. Linn.' Syjl, 

 Nat. 2. 857. J^^.—Fab. Ent. Sjji. T. 3. p, 2. 

 p. 90. fp. 267. 

 Geoff. Inf. 2. 164. 109. 

 Merian. Europ. I . tab. 40. 

 Roej. Inf. I. phal. 2. tab. 12. 

 Panz. Fn. Germ. 7. tab. 17. 



The Phalzena Delphinii is extremely rare. A traditionary opi- 

 nion fecmed to prevail amongft the old coUedlors of Englilh Infeds, 



B that 



