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 PLATE CXXXIX. 



PHAL.ENA METICULOSA, 



Angle-shades Moth. 



Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae taper from the bafe. Wings, in general deflcxcd when 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



* Nq5iua antennas like briftles in both fexes. 

 SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 



AND 



STNO NTMS. 



Firfl: Wings pale reddifh colour, with a broad triangular brown 

 fpake in the middle. Second Wings palifh, with dark waves ; 

 margin of both Wings indented, 



Phalsna Meticulofa. Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 845. 132. — Fn. Sv, 1164. 



Phalasna Meticulofa : alis deflexis, erofo dentatis, pallidis, anticis 

 ba(i incarnata, triangule fufco, FaL Syjf, 

 Ent. 608. 78. 



Ph^Jana feticornis fpirilinguis, alis deflexis margine erofis cinereo 

 fufcis, fuperioribus triangulo marginali fuf- 

 cefcente, incarnatum includente, thorace 

 gibbo. Geo/. Inf. 2. 151. 84, 

 Merian. Europ. tab, 24. 

 Albin Inf. tab. 13^. 

 Roef Inf. 4. tab. 9. 

 Degeer Inf. I. tab. 5. jig. 14. 

 Coedy Inf. I. tab. 56= 



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