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Fic al., BE: CRRA 
Pik oN A HE XA De asen ry LA 
Many-FEATHERED Morn. 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
' GENERIC CHARACTER, 
Antennz taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed when 
at reft. Fly by night. 
* PTEROPHORUS. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
- Wings divided into Feathers, yellowifh and grey, with brown 
Spots. 
Phalana Hexada@yla. Linn. Sy/t. Nat. 
Poatana HexapacrTyY_us, alis fiffis cinereis, fingulis fexpartitis. 
Fab. Spec. laf. 2. 312. 7.—Syft. Ent. 
672: 1. 
Reaum. Inf.1. tab. 19.—Fig. 19. 2%. 
frifch. Inf. 7, tab. 73. 
Among an almoft endlefs variety of fpecies, which the tribes of 
Infects prefent, few have a more fingular appearance than the little 
creature we have felected for our prefent fubje&. It is perhaps 
one of the moft curious pieces of natural mechanifm (if we may be 
allowed the expreflion) that can be conceived, for of a moft com- 
plicated fabric which the wings appear, every part, though feparate, 
* Fabricius 
M acts 
