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 PLATE CCXXVII. 



PHAL^NA MONACHA. 



Black Arches Moth. 

 Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae taper from the bafe : wings in general defle&ed when at 

 reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 

 Wings white, with black arches : abdomen with red incifures. 



PlIAL-asNA Mo N AC HA : alis deflexis albis atro undatis, abdominis 

 incifuris fanguineis. Lin. Syji. Nat. 2. 821. 43.— 

 Fn. Sv. 1130.— Fab. Ent. Syji. T. 3. p. 1. 446, 119. 

 Wien. Verz. 52. 5. 

 Wilks pap. 19. tab. 3. a. 4. 

 Schaff. Icon. tab. 68. fig. 2, 3. 



We have in Few inftances been able to prefent a fpecies of Pha- 

 Jaana, with all its metamorphofis, more deferving attention than the 

 Black Arches Moth. It js uncommonly rare in the winged ftate, 

 and its larva and pupa is, we prefume, unknown to the Englifh 

 Entomologifts at this time. We imagine Harris met with, and bred 



this 



