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 PLATE CXXXVI, 



f H ALJEN A HEXADACTYLA. 



Many-feathered Moth. 



Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed when 

 gt reft. Fly by night. 



* Pterophorus. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Wing? divided into Feathers, yellowifh and grey, with brown 

 Spots. 



Phalasna Hexada£lyla. Linn. Syjl. Nat. 



fHALi^NA Hexadactylus, alis fiflis cinereis, fingulis fexpartitis. 



Fab. Spec. Inf. 2. 312. J.—Sv/i. Ent. 



672. 7. 

 Reaum. Iv.J. I. tab. ig.~^Fig. 19. 311, 

 Frijch. InJ. 7, tab. 73. 



Among an almoft endlefs variety of fpecies, which the tribes of 

 Infedls prefent, few have a more fmgular appearance than the little 

 creature we have felefted for our prefent fubje£l. It is perhaps 

 one of the moft curious pieces of natural mechanifm (if we may be 

 allowed the expreflionj that can be conceived, for of a mod com- 

 plicated fabric which the wings appear, every part, though feparate, 



* Fahrkm. 



