Os a 
PLAT bE ., CLXAXKIX 
PHALANA MENTHRASTIRI. 
SpoTTreD WuHitre Morn. 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
CENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed when at 
reft. Fly by night. 
Bombyx. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
) AND 
SYNONYMS. 
White with black fpots. Abdomen orange, with black fpots. 
PHaLaNnaA MENTHRASTRI: alis deflexis albis nigro fubpundtatis, 
abdominis dorfo fulvo nigro puntato, femoribus 
anticis luteis. ab. Ent. Sy. T. 3. p. 1. 452. 140. 
Bombyx Menthraftri. Wien. Verz 54. 2.—Reef. Inf. t Phal. 2. t. 46. 
Knoch. Beytr. 3. tab. 2. fig. §. 13. 
i enna 
= his Infe€&t has been confounded with Phalena lubricipeda by 
Linnzus ; he makes it the variety 8 after De Geer. In this he has 
been followed by many other authors ; and though Roefel, by giving 
the larva and pupa of each, in two diftinét plates, evidently thought 
them different fpecies, his obfervations had no weight with other 
Naturalifts; even Fabricius, in his Species Infeétorum, gives them 
under 
