PLATE III. 



PHAL£NA BUCEPHALA, 

 Buff-tip Moth. 



Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae taper from the bafe to the apex, and are fetaceous. 

 Wings in general deflected when at reft. Fly by night. No Trunk, 

 Wings reverfed, i. e. firft Wings horizontal and fecond erect. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae feathered. Firft Wings grey, with two double tranfverfe 

 brown waves, and a large yellowim brown fpot at the extreme angle. 

 Second Wings plain, light yellow, length fcarce one inch. Cater- 

 pillar hairy, yellow with black fpots. On Oaks, Afh, &c. — Berken- 

 kout. 



The delicate afTemblage of beautiful down which cloath the upper 

 wings of the Buff-tip Moth is its chief recommendation j the hiftory 

 affords but little for obfervation, it is hatched from the egg in Augujl^ 

 and in 'June following the fly is perfect. 



Its beauty avails not the race of birds who purfue them from 

 necefiity, or from an innate defire of cruelty and devaluation; and 



- whilft 



