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PLATE CCCCLXIII. 
PHALENA QUADRIPUSTULATA. 
FOUR SPOT HEATH MOTH. 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antennz taper from the bafe: wings in general defleGted when at 
reft: fly by night. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
PHALENA QUADRIPUSTULATA. Wings fcalloped, greyith gloffed 
with purple, and fpeckled: a imall whitith fpot in 
the middle of each wing, and a common irregular 
line of dots behind. 
An elegant and very rare fpecies of the Geometra family with feta- 
ceous antenne. ‘This we difcovered fome years ago upon a fandy 
plain clofe to the Severn fea in the county of Glamorganthire, be- 
tween Newton and Kenfig. 
This Infect was taken in the winged fiate the laft week in July, and 
was obferved to fly in the open day, juft {kimming the furface of the 
fcanty herbage on the fands. Its flight was amazingly rapid. 
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