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PLATE CCCLXXX. 



FIG. I. I. 

 PHALJENA SUBOCELLANA. 



SUB-OCELLATED TORTRIX-MOTH. 

 LEPIDOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas gradually tapering from the bafe to the tip : wings in ge- 

 neral deflected when at reft. Fly by night. 



* TOilTRlX. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Tortrix subocellana. Anterior wings white, with fhort 

 oblique black lines at the exterior margin : bafe, and dufky fpot near 

 the tip, dotted with black ; a terminal gilt orange itreak next the pofie- 

 rior margin. 



Specimens of this infe£i have occured to our obfervation, in which 

 the black dots at the bafe of the anterior wings are fo intimately con- 

 nected as to appear like interrupted tranivei fe lineations. The ground 

 colour is white : fometimes yellowifh ; and moit exquifiteiy mottled, 

 and dotted with black and duiky fpots, leaving the center of the diik 

 immaculate. The pofterior wings are pale. 



This was taken in Kent, in the month of July. The fmalleft 

 figure denotes the natural iize. 



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