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PLATE CCCVI. 



PHALiENA (QUADRA. 

 Spotted Pootman Moth. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae taper from thebafe. Wings in general dcflexed when at 

 jefl. Fly by night, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS. 



Thorax fmooth. Wings deprefied, yellow, with two dark blue 

 fpots on the anterior pair. 



Phal^na Quadra : lasvis alis depreffis luteis: anticis pun£lls 

 duobus cyaneis. Linn Syji. Nat. 2. 840. 14. 

 — Fah. Ent. SyJi, T. 3. p. 2. p. 24.. fp. 54,. 

 Schceff. Elem. tab. 98. fig. 5. 

 Roef. Inf. i.phal. 2. tab. 17. 



The larva of this fpecles rarely occurs, and the winged Infeft is 

 not common. Linnasus has taken his specific chara6ler of this Moth 

 from the four blue fpots on the anterior wings : it is therefore necef- 

 fary to obferve, that the other fex has no fuch fpots, and has erro- 

 jieoufly been made a diftind fpecies by the fame author, becaufe it 

 was deftitute of them.— Found in the winged ftatein May and June. 



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