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PLATE CCCXLVIL 



FIG. I. 



PHAL^NA APRILINA, 

 Scarce Merveille du jour Moth. 



GENERIC CHARACTER, 



Antennae taper from the bafe. Wings in general deilcxed when 

 at reft. Fly by Night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS. 



Thorax crefled. Wings deflexed, green : a black mark and 

 tt-anfverfe band ; and a fingle row of black tiiangular dots near the 

 apex« 



PhajujENA AerilIna : criftata alls deflexis viridibus : macula 

 fafciaque atris apice pun6lorum trigonum ferie 

 unica. Fab, Ent, Syfl. T. 3. p. 2, p. 103' 



Phalj^na runica Linn, 



Linnaeus has made feme confufion between the two fpecies of 

 Phalacna Aprilina and runica in feveral of his works. In the laft 

 edition by Gmelin, our Infedl ftands as the P. runica j and in the 

 Entomologia Syftematica of Fabricius, which we have in this in- 

 ftance preferred, it is the Phala?na Aprilina. 



The 



