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PLATE CXLI. 



PHALvENA DOMINULA. 



Scarlet Tiger Moth. 



Lepidoptera. V 



GENERIC CHARACTER, 



Antennae taper from the bafe. Wings, in general contracted 

 when at reft. Fly by night. 



Bomhyx antennas of Male feathered, J'emale fetaceous. 

 SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNO NTMS. 



Firft Wings black glolTy green, with orange and white fpot^. 

 Second Wings and Abdomen fcarlet, with black fpots. 



Phalasna Dominula : alls incumbentibus atris, maculis albo flavef- 

 centibus, pofticis rubris nigro maculatis. 

 Fab. Syji. Ent. 583. 93. — Spec. Inf. 2. 200. 

 130. 



Phalasna Dominula. NoSiua fpirilinguis lasvis, alis depreflis nigris : 

 fuperioribus casruleo flavo alboque, inferioribus 

 rubro maculatis. Linn. SyJi. Nat. 2. 509. 68 

 edit. 10. 

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^^"jrmerly this beautiful Moth was found in great abundance at 

 Charlton in Kent, but within the laft two or three years moft of the 



broods 



