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PLATE CCCCXXXIX. 
PHALENA OLEAGINA. 
GREEN BRINDLED DOT MOTH. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
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Antenne tapering from the bafe: wings in general defletted when 
at reft. Fly by night. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SY NONY MS. 
Wings green-brown with two white fpots, the anterior one pupilla- 
ted, pofterior largeft. 
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PuaLZ=NA OLEAGINA: -alis viridibus fufco fubundatis: maculis 
duabus albis anteriore pupillata; pofteriore majore. 
Wien. Schmetterl. p. 59. n. 2. 
GREEN BrinpLED Dor. Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 120. n. 70, 
We accidentally met with an individual of this fpecies on the wing 
about twilight one fummer’s evening * near Fifhguard in Pembroke- 
fhire, South Wales. It occurred among a number of other infetts of 
the Noétua and Bombyx families by the fide of the low hedges which 
divide the fields and meadows at a fhort diftance from the towm 
This is the only fpecimen we have feen Britifh. 
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* In the month of July 1800, 
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