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PLATE CCCX, 



PHALiENA VERNARIA. 



Green House-wife Moth. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed when 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Antennse feathered ; fetaceous at the apex. - Wings angulated, 

 green, with two equidiftant whitifli bars acrofs : margin of alternate 

 fpots of brown and white. 



Phal^NA Vernaria: pe6linicornis alis angulatis virefcentibus: 

 ftrigis duabus albis repandis, antennis apice fetaceis. 

 Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 858. 195. — Fn. Sv. 1227. 

 Fab. Ent. SyJl. T. 3. p. Z.p. 129. i^^g.fp. 3. 



A very common and pretty little fpecies. Is found on the jaf- 

 mine and honeyfuckle. 



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