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 PLATE CCLXV. 



PHALiENA J OTA. 



Golden ^ Moth. 



Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed when 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



Sr NO NT MS. 



Thorax crefled. Anterior wings ferruginous red, varloufly fliaded, 

 and marked in the centre with an inverted golden i\ 



Phal^ena Iota : criftata alis deflexis, anticis ferrugineo grifeis I 



refupinato aureo infcriptis. Fal>. Syji. Ent. 608. 76. 



— <S>. Inf. T. 2. p. 228. 98.— £«/. S)Jl. T. 3. p. 81. 



Sp. 237. 

 Phal-^na Iota : alis primoribus ferrugineo-grifcis, I refupinato 



aureo infcriptis. Gmel. S\Jl. Nat, — Ent. p. 2557. 1 30. 



RoeJ. Inf. l.phaJ. 3. tab. 5. 



Linnasus very accurately defcribed this Infe6t under the fpecific 

 name Iota in the early edition of the Syftema Nature. It is given 

 as a native of Germany, and vfithout a reference to any figure. 

 Fabricius has followed the feme defcription throughout all his works. 



without 



