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PLATE CCCXVI. 



PHAL^NA GONONSTIGMA. 



Scarce Vapourer Moth. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas taper from the bafe. Wings in general deilexed when ar 

 reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS. 



Wings incumbent, brown. Two white fpots on the firft v;ings 5 

 one placed on the anterior, and the other nearly oppofite, on the 

 pofterior margin. Female without wings. 



Phal^na Gononstigma : acis incumbentibus fufcis : maculis 

 duabus albis oppofitis, foemina aptera. Linn. Syji. 

 Nat. 1. 826. ^'].<—Fab. Ent. SyJi, T. 3. p. i. p. 477. 

 7>.2I7. 



Roef. Inf. 1. phal. 2. tab. 40. 

 Albin. Inf. tab. 90. 



The Phalasna Gononftigma, and Phalasna Antiqua are very fimilar 

 both in the larva and winged ftate, as well as in the extraordinary 

 appearance of the apterous female. Hence former colledlors of 

 Englifh infe£ts denominated them trivially the Scarce and Common 

 Vapourer Moths. It is evident from thofe allufive names, that the 



latter 



