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PLATE CCXIV. 
PHALZANA RUSSULA. 
CLoupeEp Burr Morn. 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antennz taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed when 
at reft. Fly by night. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
_. Wings deflexed, bright yellow. Margin and antennz blood red. 
A lunar-fhaped {pot on the middle of the wings. 
PHALANA RussuLa: alis deflexis luteis: marginefanguineo lunu- 
laque fufca, antennis fanguineis.—Fad. Ent. Syft. I. 3. 
p. 1. 180.—Linn. Syft. Nat. 2. 830. 71. 
Scheff. Icon. tab. 83. fig 4, 5- 
Clerk. Icon. tab. 4. fig. 1. 
Raj. Inf. 228. 75. 
As the Phalanx are not remarkable for a variety of gay colours, 
like thofe of the Papilio genus, an exception to a general rule in 
the beautiful fpecies before us, more ftrongly demands our notice. 
The male Phalzena Ruffula, which isknown by the pe¢tinated an- 
tennz, is of a fine golden yellow, witha rich, though narrow mar- 
ginal band of fanguineous red round the wings. “The female is a 
pretty Infe€t, but is more inclined to brown throughout than the 
male. 
This 
