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 PLATE CCXCVIII. 



PHALiENA TRIPLACIA. 



Spectacle Moth, 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed when 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



* * NoSfua. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



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SYNONYMS. 



Thorax crefted. Wings deflexed ; firft pair greyifli, with a double 

 ferruginous arcli; at the bafe, and another in an oppofitq diredion 

 near the apex. 



PHALiENA Triplacia: critata alis deflexis ; anticis arcu duplici 

 contrario maculifque tribus glaucis intermediis. Linn. 

 Syji. Nat. 2. 854. 175. — Fn. Sv. 1202. 

 Fab. Ent. SyJi. T. 3. p. 2, 117. 354. 

 Degeer. Inf. I. tab. 6. jig. 20. 21. 

 Merian. Europ. tab. 97. 



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This Infed is remarkable for a fanciful kind of marking that 

 encircles the eyes, and feems to referable a pair of fpedlacles. It 

 is found in the winged ftate the fourth week in June, 



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