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PLATE CCCXXIV, 



PHALiENA SPONSA. 



Crimson Underwing Moth. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 

 Antenna fetaeeous. Wing deflexed when at reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS. 



Thorax crefted. Anterior wings greyifh, undulated, fpotted 

 with brown. Pofterior pair crimfon, with two black bars acrofs. 

 Abdomen grey. 



pHALiENA Sponsa : crifta, alis planis cinerafcentibus fufco undu- 

 latis : pofticis riibris ; fafciis duabus nigris, abdo- 

 mine undique cinereo. Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 841. 

 118. Roef. Inf. 4. tab. 1 9. 



In the defcription of Phalsna Niipta, we have offered fome re» 

 marks on the Sponfa, Nupta, and Pa61:a of Linnssus and Fabricius; 

 and have only to add in this place, that an accurate figure of 

 P. Pada is given in Fuejl. Arch'iv. tab. 15. fig. 3. This figure is 

 fmaller than the fpecies found in Great Britain, and in particular 

 has the upper furface of the abdomen crimfon, as autliois ha\e de- 

 fcribed it. 



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