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PLATE CCLXVI. 



FIG. I, II. 



PHALiENA LEMNATA 



Small White China Mark Moth. 



Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed when 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS. 



Antennze fetaceous. Wings fnowy white. A black ftreak next 

 the pofterior margin of the lower pair, marked with four white 

 fpots. 



Phal.^na Lemnata : feticornis alis niveis: pofticis fafcia termi- 

 nali nigra ; pundlis quatuor albis. Lynn. Syji. Nat. 2. 

 874. 278. — Fn. Sv. 1301. — FaL Ent. S)Ji. T. 1. p. 2. 



/>. 215- 7^. 319- 



Raj. Inf. 205. 102. 



Reaum. Inf. 2. tab. 12. fg. 14, 15. 



Linnasus and Fabricius dpfcribe only the male of this fpecies ; 

 the female is rather larger, the colour pale brown, with markings 



D iimilar 



