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 PLATE CVI. 



FIG. L 

 FIG. Vf 



PHALiENA EMAPvGANA. 



Notch Wing. 



lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae taper from the bafe. Wings in general contracted 

 ^hen at reft. Fly by night. 



ToRTRix, Linnaus. 

 Pyralis, Fabriclus. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Firft wings brown, with reticulated dark lines ; the anterior margin 

 deeply excavated in the form of a curve. Pofterior wings light 

 brown. 



P. Emargana. Alis fubcaudatis flavis fufco reticulatis fafciaque 

 lata fufca, margine craffiori late emargi- 

 nato. Syji, Ent. Fab. 651. 37. 



The excavations of the fuperior wings of this InfeiS contribute fuch 

 an air of novelty to its general appearance, that it might rather be 

 confidered as the efFeft of chance or defign, on a fingle Infe6t, if 

 we did not obferve that character prevail through every fpecimen ; we 

 find two kinds c^ them in feveral cabinets in London, and we are in 

 poiT^fTion qf a third that differs from either. 



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