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 PLATE CCXXX. 



.FIG. I. 



PHALtENA MAURA. 



Old Lady Moth, 

 lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed when 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



s r N o N r M s. 



ThoraK crefted, Wings incumbent, exterior margins dentated, 

 afh-colour, varied with large fpaces of black. On the underfide a 

 deep whitifh border. 



NocTUA Maura criRata, alls incumbentibus dentatis, cinereo 

 nigroque variis, fubtus margine albo. Fah. Syjl» 

 Ent. 604. 61.— Spec. Inf. 1. 224. 'ii.—Ent. Syji. 3. 



p. 2 63. 174. 



Phalana maura fpirilinguis criftata, alis depreffis dentatis, fafciis 

 duabus nigris, inferioribus nigris, fafcia alba. 

 Linn. SyJi, Nat. 2. 843. 124. 



Phalsna Lemur Naturf. 6. tah. 5. fig. i. 



Shceff. Icon. tab. i. fig. 5. 6. 



This grave Moth appears in the month of Auguft : it frequents 



old houfes in evenings. — From its dingy appearance it is ufually 



called the Old Lady. 



Fa FIG. 



