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The trivial Englifh name, Phoenix Moth, has been given to thb 

 Infeft from a circumftance little known, and fcarcely deferving 

 notice, except as it proves the impropriety of naming Infedls from 

 local circumllances, when any other can be well applied. A fmall 

 part of a wood near London had been cut down, arid a quantity of 

 charcoal made on the fpot. This place had been often vifited by 

 Aurelians, but the Phalasria Prunaria had never been difcovered there, 

 nor indeed was then known as a Britifh Infe£l:. On the following 

 year, when the ground was cleared, and the underwood grown up, 

 this Moth was found, it continued to be taken conftantly in the 

 months of June and July for many years, in this place, and then 

 totally difappeared. The late Mr. Bentley, known as a colledlor 

 of Englifh Infe6ls, difcovered a breeding-place of this Moth on 

 Epping Foreft, and commonly found three or four fpecimens every 

 feafon. We are not certain that it has been found in any other part 

 of the kingdom. It feeds on the thorn, plumb and currant. 



F I G. II. II. 



PHAL^NA DUPLICATA. 

 SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



S rNONTMS. 



Firft wings grey, with three tranfverfe waved lines. 



pHALiENA DuPLiCATA : feticornis, alis grifeis, fafciis duabu9 

 trilineatis fufcis. FaL Ent. Syji. 3. p. 2. p. 193. 



234. 

 Phal^na Plagiata : feticornis, alis anticis canis : fafciis tribur 

 trilineatis nigricantibus repandis. Linn. SyJi. Nat.-^ 

 Fn. Sv.p. 334. n. 1271. 



Phal. 



