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F I G. III. 

 PHAL^NA PROFANANA. 



BROWN-TUFTED TORTRIX-MOTH, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 



Wings fufcous grey, with a da-k tufted dot in the middle, 



Tortrix Profanana: alis cinereis : punCto medio fufco. Fabr, 

 Ent. Syjl. T. 3. p. 2. 268. fp. 111. 



A new fpecies, described by Fabricius as a native of this country, 

 from a fpecimen in the cabinet of Mr. Franciilon. Our infect, 

 which was taken in Kent, is of the fame fpecies precifeiy, but only 

 of a darker colour. Befides the confpicuous elevated hairy tuft in 

 the middle of the wing, there are feveral minute elevated dots in the 

 difk contiguous to it, as Fabricius mentions. The anterior wing$ 

 have a rich iilky glofs, the lower ones are brownifh, and imma- 

 culate. 



This, we believe, to be one of the rareft Britifh fpecies of that 

 particular family of Tortrices known among Engliih collectors by 

 the denomination of Button-wing moths, a term alluding to the 

 imall fafciculi, tufts, or fcabrous elevations, which appear on the 

 anterior wings of fome few fpecies of the Tortrix tribe of Phalaena. 

 It is alfo an infect of no very inconliderable magnitude, as will ap- 

 pear from the fmaller figure fliewn at number 3 in the oppoiite 

 plate, which reprefents it in the natural fize. 



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