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PEATE | CCCCXLVILI. 
-PHALENA URSULARIA: 
THICK-HAIRED MOTH. 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
_ Antenne tapering from the bafe : wings in general defleGted when 
at reft. Fly by night. 
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GEOMETRAe 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Puarena Ursuvaria. Thorax thickly clothed with hair: ante. 
_ rior wings pale brown, with undulated fufcous waves 
and dots: pofterior pair whitilh: 
This moth poffeffes every charatter of a genuine Bombyx, and 
might be without fcruple referred to that feétion, but for the authority 
of Mr. Drury who was fo fortunate as to rear it from the caterpillar ; 
and which being of the looper kind decidedly proves it to be of the 
Geometra inftead of Bombyx family. 
The antennz in this infect as in the Bombyces is much pettinated, 
the thorax thick, and the body largeand bulky. From its general ha- 
bit it appertains therefore to the full bodied tribe of Geometre, at the 
head of which we may rank the fpecies Hirtaria. This laft men- 
tionedanfeét is fo clearly of the Bombyx family from its general appear- 
AS ins ance, 
