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PLATE CCCLXXXVIII. 



PHAL^NA MENDICA, 



SPOTTED MUSLIN MOTH, 

 LEPIDOPTEKA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae gradually tapering from the bafe to the tip : tongue fpiral : 

 wings in general deflected when at reft. Fly by night. 



* Bombyx. 

 SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Wings of the male brown and obfcure : thofe of the female, whit§ 

 and pellucid, both dotted with black. 



Pjialjena mendica : alis deflexis nigro punctatis, femoribus anticis 

 luteis. Linn. Syjl. Nat. 2. 822. 47. — Gmel. Linn. 

 Syjl. Nat. 2423. n. 47- 



|*HALiENA mendica. Fabr. E?it. Syfi. 3. 4.52. n. 139. Mas 

 cinero fufcus, faemina albida punclis aliquot nigris. 

 Femora antica barba lutea. Abdomen concolor. 

 ibid. 



JPhauena mendica. Marjh. in Linn. Tranf. T. I. p. 72. 



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