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PLATE CCXXXIII. 



PHALiENA PRUNARIA. 



Phoenix Moth. 

 Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER, 



Antennas taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexdd when 



at reft. Fly in the night. 



Gemieira. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS. 



Antennas like a bridle. Firft pair of wings brown and grey, 

 with two broad pale waved marks acrofs. Second pair, with waves 

 on the pofterior part. 



Phal^na Prunaria : fetlcornis alis grifeo fufcis : fafciis duabus 

 pallidis repandis : poftica femiterminali. Linn. Syji, 

 Nat. 2. 869. 250. — Fn. Sv. 1267. — Fab. Ent. SyJi. 3. 

 p. 2, p. 178. 175. 

 IFien. Verz. 113. 19. 

 Clerk. PhaL tab. 'J. fig. 3. 

 Ammiral Inf. tab» ^T,. fig. !• 4" 



Fabricius defcrlbes the larva of this rare Moth : — It is afh-coloured, 



with a black collar or mark on the neck : feet reddifli brown, and 



the back fpotted with the fame colour. 



The 



