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PLATE CCXXXVII. 



PHAL^NA BETULARIA. 

 Peppered Moth. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antenna taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed when 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



srNONrMs. 



Antenna; feathered. Wings entirely white, fpeckled with black ; 

 a black bar acrofs the thorax. 



Phal^na Betularta : pedlinicornis, alis omnibus albis, thorace 



fafcia nigra, antennis apice fetaceis. Litm. Syji, 



Nat. 2. 862. 217. Fn. Sv. 1287. 



Fab. Spec. Inf. 2. 252. 56. 

 Phal^na antennis pe£linatis, alis horizontalibus albis nigro punc- 



tatis maculatifque, thorace fafciato. Degeer, Inf. 



Verz. Germ. 2. I. 250. I tab. 5. fg. 18. 



Amnilral. Inf. tab. 21. 



S chaff. Icon. tab. 88. /^. 4. 5. 



Alb'in. Inf. tab. 91, 92. 



Kleman. Inf. i . tab. 39. fig. 6. 



H 2 Found 



