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FIG. III. 



PHAL/ENA LYNCEATA. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Wings white, with two brown tranfverfe bands, and a brown fpol 

 near the apex. 



Phal.^na Lynceata : alis albis : fafciis duabiis pun6loqr'' apicis 

 fufcis. Fab. f pec. Inf. '1. />. 262. n. 129. Cmel. 

 Linn. SyJ}. 2478. 



This Infcit, though very common in our woods, was unknown to 

 Fabricius before his vifit to Great Britain ; he firft defcribed it in the 

 fpecies Infectorum, under the fpccific name of Lynceata, as an Englifh 

 Infedl : it has fince appeared in his other publications,* and has been 

 inferted by Gmelin in the laft Edition of the Syftema Naturas. 



The Linnean defcription of P. ocellata coincides fo nearly with 

 this Infe<^, that we may doubt the propriety of feparating them ; 

 they are probably varieties only of the fame Species. 



It is very common in June, 



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