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PLATE CCLXVII. 



F I G. I. II. 



PHALiENA DEGEERELLA. 



Long Horn Japanned Moth. 



Lepidoptera. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER, 



Antcnnse, taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed, when 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



TINEA. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS. 



Black, bronzed, or changeable to gold. A yellow indented band 

 acfofs the anterior wings. Antenna very long. 



Phaltena Degeerella : aiis atro aureis : fafcia flava, antennis 

 longis. Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 895. 426. — Fn. Sv. 1393, 

 Alucita Degeerella. Fab. Ent. SyJl.T. -i,. f. 2. />. 341. 40, 



The tv/o fexes of this beautiful ajid extraordinary little Infecl has 

 been defcrihed as two diftin£t fpecies. They differ principally in 

 the form and fize of the antennas ; in the female thefe are entirely 

 fetaceous, or like a fine hair, three times the length of the whole 

 body : the antennas in the male are fhorter, and are thick in the 

 middle, not very unlike thofe of fome kinds of Sphinges, It is not 

 uncommon in hedges in May and June. 



