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PLATE CCXXVII. 



PHALiENA MONACHA. 

 Black Arches Moth. 

 Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER, 



Antennas taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed whcii 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS. 

 • Wings deflexed, white, with black arches. Abdomen red. 



Phal^ena Monacha : alls deflexis albis atro undatis, abdominis 

 incifuris fanguineis. Lin. Syjl, Nat. 2. 821. 43-— 

 Fn. 'Sv. 1120.— Fa5. Ent. Syji. T. 3. p. i. 446. 1 19. 

 Wien. Verz. 52. 5. 

 JVilh pap. 19. tab. 3. a. 4. 

 Schaff. Icon. tab. 68. jig. 2, 3. 



We have in few inftances been able to prefent a fpecies of Pha- 

 la^na, with all its metamorphofis, more deferving attention than the 

 Black Arches Moth. It is uncommonly rare in the winged ftate, 

 and its larva and pupa is, we pre fume, unknown to the Englifh 

 Entomologifts at this time. We imagine Harris met with, and bred 



this 



