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PLATE CCCXLV. 

 F I G. I. 



PHALiENA GRANDIS. 



Gr£y Arches Moth. 



GENERIC Cfi.^^RACTER. 



Antennse taper from the bafe. Wings in general dcOexed when 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 



Wings whltifli, variegated with black, and waved or arched 

 tranfverfe Rreaks. A large eye-diaped fpot in the middle, and a 

 black character in the pofterior angle, 



P^ALyENA Gra^'DIS : alis alblcantibns nigro-varie undatis : flJg- 

 inatibus inagnis fubocellaribus, litura prope 

 anglum pofticum nigrum. 



An Infe^l -well known amongft EngliO:i co}le61ors by the name of 

 Grey Arches Moth, from the charadleriftic arclied double lines 

 acrofs the fuperior wings. It is altogether unnoticed by Linnscns 

 or Fabricius, though figured by Sepp. vol. ii- tab, 2'j, It is 

 clleemcd a fcarce fpecies in ihis country. 



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