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PLATE CXXXVII. 



PHALiENA CHRYSITIS. 

 Burnished Brass Moth. 

 Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER, 



Antenna2 taper from the Bafe. Wings in general deflexed whei) 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



Noctua. 

 Antennae of both fexes filiform. 



' . SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNO NTMS. 



Firft Wings brown, with two tranfverfe broad waves of greenif!j| 

 gold on each. Second Wings blackifh grey. Wings margined. 



Phal^na Chrysitis Lhin. Syji. Nat. i. 843. 126. 



Nodlua criftata, alis deflexis orichalceis, margine fafciaque 



grifeis. SyJi. Ent. 606. 69. — Spec. InJ. 2. p. 226. 91. 



'—Fabricius. 

 Phalana feticornis fpirilinguis, alis deflexis ferrugineo fufcis, fafcia 



duplici tranfverfa viridi aurea. Geof. Inf. 2. 149. 97. 

 Phalana antennis filiformibus, dorfo criftato, alis deflexis grifeis, 



fafciisduabus aureo viridibus. Degeer. InJ, Vers, Germ. 



2. I. 311. 2. 



Merian. Europ. tab. 39. 



Albln InJ. tab. 71. fig. a. b. c. d. 



Shofff. Icon. tab. 101. fig. 2. 3. 



Ma The 



