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PLATE CCCIV. 



PHALiENA ABISINTHII. 



Wormwood Moth. 



GENEI^IC CHARACTER. 



Antennas taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed when 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONl-'MS. 



Thorax crefted. Wings deflexed : white, fafciated and fpotted with 

 black in a fomewhat quadrangular manner. 



Phal^na Abisinthii : crifta alis deflexis canis : faciis punc- 

 tifque in tetragonum pofitis nigris. Lim. Syfi, 

 Nat. 2. 845. 133. — Fn. Sv. 1182. Fak Ent. Syji, 

 T. 3. />. 2, p. 88.^.261. 



Phalasna Abifinthii is certainly an elegant fpecies, and particularly 

 interefting as a native of this country. A few years llnce it was very 

 highly efteemed by collectors of Englifh natural hiftory, and at pre- 

 fent it holds a diftinguifhed rank amongft the more valuable infers 

 of our cabinets. Has been found on fome wormwood in Bunhill- 

 fields, about twenty years ago. 



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