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F I G. II. III. 



PHALiENA SPINULA. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Wings variegated brown and grey, with obfcure tranfverfe bars. 

 Three diftind black pointed charaders near the apex. 



Phal^ena Spinula : alis fufco cinereis maculis ftrigifque ob, 

 fcuris lituris tribus acutiufculis diftindlis nigris 

 ad apicem. 



The fpeci mens, /^. 2 and 3, appear at the fir ft view two very 

 diftin£l Infedls ; yet on the moft attentive comparifon of the cha- 

 ra^leriftic marks, we are inclined to confider them as the two fexes 

 of the fame fpecies, notwithftanding the diflimilarity of their co- 

 lours in general. The kind reprefented at Jig. 2, and which from 

 its fetaceous antenna is evidently the female, has been placed in 

 Englifh cabinets as a fpecies foraewhat analogous to the Phalsena 

 Exoleta, or Sword-blade Moth, under the trivial appellation of the 

 Jcarce Sword-blade Moth. The other, which from the peftinated 

 ftrudlureof its antennze, is obvioufly the male, is equally uncommon. 

 We have obferved fcveral figures of this fpecies different only in 

 colour in the works of Ernft, and one in particular nearly corre- 

 fponding with that reprefented in the annexed plate at y?^. 2, which 

 he calls Jpinula\ a name we have ventured to adopt, as the Infe6t 

 is neither defcribcd by Linnasus nor Fabricius. 



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