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PLATE CCXLVIII. 



FIG. I. II. 



PHAL^NA ATOMARIA. 



Dark Heath Moth. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed when 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



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STNONTMS. 



Antennae feathered. Wings entirely yellowifli ; with bands of 

 brown, and the whole thickly fprinkled with atoms of the fame 

 colour. 



Phal.5:na Atomaria : pe6linicornis ; alis omnibus lutefcentibus 

 fafciis atomifque fufcis. Linn. Faun. Suec. 1245. — 

 Syji. Nat. p. 862. tu 214. 



Phalasna ifofelata. Scop. earn. 558. female. 



Phala:na pennata. Scop. cam. 569. male. 



The Dark Heath Moth is confidered as the Phalaena Atomaria of 

 Linnaeus, in the Faun. Suec. and Syjiema Natura. Fabricius adopts 

 the Linnasan character, though in the Synonyms it is confounded 

 with another Geometra, the Flirtaria of fome entomologifts. He 

 refers to the Phalana ijfojelata and Phalcena pennata of Scopoli, which 

 are evidently tlie two fexes of the Dark Heath Moth ; but the Infe6l 

 figured in Plate XXXIV. Kicmans Inf. is very diftinct, and is the 

 P. Hirtaria before alluded to. We cannot but obferve how clofely 



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