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PLATE XVL 



PHAL^NA ANTI Q^U A, 



White Spot Tussock Moth, 



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Vapourer. 



Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae taper from the bafe. No trunk. Wings depreffed. Back 

 hairy. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 



Antennae feathered. Firft wings cloudy, orange, waved and fpot- 

 ted with brown, and a white fpot on the poflerior angle. Femals 

 without wings. 



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The female Vapourer Moth at iirft fight perfectly refembles an ap- 

 terous infect j but on infpeition, very fmall wings are feen at the ex- 

 tremity of the Thorax, and the antennae determine it to be a phalaena. 

 It creeps in a fluggifh manner, and lays an abundance of eggs. 



Fig. i. the Female. Fig. 2. the Male, 



The 



