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PLATE CCLXXIL 



PHALiENA FURCULA. 



Kitten Moth. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed when 

 ^t reft. Fly by night. 



BoMBYX. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



ST NO NT MS. 



Thorax variegated. Anterior wings grey, fprinkled with black : 

 bafe and apex white, with black fpots. Pofterior wings white, witli 

 a marginal row of black points. 



Phal.^na Furcula : thorace variegato, alis grifeis bafi apiceque 

 albis nigro pundatis. Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 823. 51. — 

 - Fn. Sv. 1 1 22. — FaL Ent. Syji. T. y p. i . 475.7^. 213. 

 Panx. Faun, Inf. Germ. 4. tab. 20. 

 Wilh.fap. 13. tab. i. fig. I. 

 Sepp. Inf. 4. 29. tab. 6. 



Phalsna Furcula is a neat and interefting Britifh Infeft. Except 

 in fize it is very iimilar to Phalaina Vinula; and the Aurelians, from 

 this fimilarity, and a fanciful reference to the brindled appearance 



of 



