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PLATE CCCLXIIL 



FIG. I. 

 PI-IAL/ENA POTAMOGATA. 



CINEROUS CHINA MARK MOTH. 

 LEPIDOPTEItA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae, tapering from the bafe : wings in general deflected when at 

 reft. Fly by night. 



* GEOMETRA. 

 SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS; 



Wings cinereous, with white fpots : anterior pair obsoletely reti- 

 culated. 



Phal/ena PotAmogata: feticornis alis cinereis albo maculatis : 

 anticis obfolete reticularis. Linn. Syft. Nat. 2* 

 -873. 275.— Fn. Suec. 1299- 

 Fabr. Ent. Syft. T. 3. p. <2.p. 213. fp* 313. 



The larva of this fpecies is fuppofed to feed principally on the Pota^ 

 mogaton nutans from which circumftance it has been called fpeciti- 

 cally Potamogata. It appears early in the month of June in the 



vol. xi. C winged 



