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PLATE I. 



PHALvENA PAVONIA. 

 Emperor-Moth. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae tapering from the bafe : wings in general deflected when 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



Bombyx. 

 SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS 



Wings rounded, grey, clouded, and barred with brown; an 

 ocellar femitranfparent fpot in the middle of each wing. 



PhaL/ENA pavonia : alis rotundatis grifeo nebulofis fubfafciatis : 

 ocello niclitante fubfeneftrato. Linn. Fn. Suec. 1099. 



The male is fmaller than the female, its colours much darker on 

 the upper wings, the lower orange, and the antennae as in the reft of 

 the Bombyces confiderably peQinated, while thofe of the female are 

 fetaceous. The caterpillar is of a green colour, with a black ring 

 furrounding each joint, and every ring is befet with feveral yellowifh 



tubercles. 



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