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the Linnasan defcription will apply in this inftance, to two Infedls 

 which at firft fight appear fo extremely different. 



This fpecies is very common on heaths in May. The male is 

 much darker in colour than the female, and has curious pedinated 

 and ciliated antennas, as Scopoli obferves. The female has been 

 miftaken for a diftindl fpecies- 



F I G. III. 



PHAL^NA CLATHRATA. 

 Pale Heath Moth. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



ANO 



STNONTMS. 



Antenna; fetaceous. Wings entirely yellowifti, with tranfverfe 

 and longitudinal dark lines interfering each other. 



Phal^na CLATHRATA: feticomis alis omnibus flavefcentibus : 

 lineis nigris decuffatis. Lyn, Syjl. NaL 2, 867. 238.* 

 . — Fn. Sv. 1275. — Fab. Ent. Syji, 3. p. 2. /. 183. 

 194. 



Schaff^ hen. tab. 21 6. Jig. 2. 3. 

 Scop. Ca^n. 536. 

 Sulz. tiiji. Inf. tab. 23. Jig. 2. 



This is a rare infe£l, except in Kent, where Dr* Latham informs 

 us it is more common than the preceding fpecies. Both fexes are 

 very fimilar to the female Dark Heath Moth. The larva is un- 

 known, but is fuppofed to feed on the Erica, being always found on 

 thefe plants in the winged ftate. Thcfe infedls have been called 

 Heath Moths becaufe they live in heaths, chalk-pits, and other 

 barren places. — The Moths appear in June. 



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