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PLATE CCXXXIX, 



F I G. I. 



PHALtENA trepida? 



Swallow Prominent Moth. 

 Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed when 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS. 



Wings deflexed ; a prominence on the back. Anterior wings 

 pale in the middle ; brown next the margin ; ftreaked. A fpot in 

 the center of the wing. 

 BoMBYx Trepida : alis deflexis dorfo unidentatis : pun6lo medio 



ocellari ftrigaque pollica maculari fufcis. Fab. 



Ent. Syjl. 3./. I. 449- 130- 

 Bombyx tremula. Wien. Verz. 49. 4. 



The Swallow Prominent Moth is fcarce, the larva is fuppofed tp 

 live under the bark of willows, but it is more certain that the Moth 

 is feldom found, except among thofe trees. In the day-time it has- 

 been feei) againft the trunk of trees, in the manner reprefented in 

 the Plate. 



We quote the authority of Fabricius with diffidence; his charac- 

 ter is ambiguous; and can only be defined by the very general de- 

 fcription he has added to it. 



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