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PLATE CCCXXXIX. 



PHALi?:NA SULPHURALIS. 

 Margate Beauty. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



AntennjE taper from the bafe. Wings in genejal deflexed when 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



s r N o N r M s. 



Firft wings yellow, with irregular conne6led ftreaks of black 

 fpots, and detached marks of the fame colour on the anterior margin. 

 Second pair brown. 



Phalaena Sulphuralis. Lwfi. Syji. Nat. 2. 88i. 333. 

 BoMBYX LuGUBRis : alis deflexis flavis: rivulis pundifque atris, 

 pofticis fufcis. Fab. Ent. SyJi. T. 3. />. i. p. 467. 

 fp. 188. — Schaff. Icon. tab. ^. fig. 14. 15. 



A fcarce infedlln this country. It is faid to have been firft dif- 

 covered at Margate, and from that circumftance was afterwards 

 known amongft Englifti colledlors by the name of Margate beauty.—^ 

 Another infedt, by no means fimilar, has however received the 

 fame name, having been met with at Margate likewife. 



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