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PLATE CXLVIIL 



PHALiENA POTATORIA. 



Drinker Moth. 

 Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennze taper from the bafe. Wings in general defi.exed when 



gt reft. Fly by night. 



BOMBYX. 



Antennse, male feathered, female, like a bridle. 

 SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNO NTMS. 



Yellow brown. Wings flightly fcalloped ; on each of the upper 

 wings an oblique line, and two white fpots near the anterior margin. 

 Female paler colour than the male. . 



Phal^na PoTATORiA : alls reverfis fubdentatis flavis, ftriga fulva 



repandaque, punftis duobusalbis. — Syji. Ent. 564. 28. 

 Phal^na maxima alis e fulvo flavicantibus. Raj. Inf. 143.. 3. 



Goed. Inf. I. tab. 12. 



Sepp. Inf. 4. 37. tab. 8. 



Schaff. Icon. tab. 67. fig. 10. II, 



Pfilk. pap. 27. tab. 3. b. 2. 



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