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PLATE CCXLVl. 



F I G. I. 

 PHALi^NA PARTHENIAS. 



LEPIDOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed when 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



S rN ON TMS. 



Wings deflexed. Firft pair with greyifli waved bars acrofs. 

 Second pair orange-red, having a large triangular black fpot at the 

 interior edge. 



Phal^na Parthenias : Lim. Syfi. Nat. 2. 835.94. Fn, Sv. 



1 160. 

 BoMBYX Vidua, alis deflexis fufcis : anticis cinereo fubfafciatis, 



pofticis macula bafeos fafciaque rufis. Fal>. Ent* 



Syji. T. 3./. 1.468, 190. 



This fpecies was defcribed by Linnaeus as Phalana Parthenias ; Fa- 

 bricius alters it to Vidua. It is not figured by any author unlefs the 

 Ph. Gem. Glauco fafdata Gozii, figured in Kleman. T» i. tab. 40. 

 fg. 4, 5^ be the fame infe6l. 



Found 



