[ 9 ] 



PLATE CXLVIII. 



PHAL^ENA POTATORIA, 



Drinker Moth, 



Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed when 

 at reft. Fly by night, 



Bombyx, 

 Antennae, of the male feathered; female, like a br! file, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYM?, 



Yellow brown. Wings flightly fcalloped; on each of the upper 

 wings an oblique line, and two white fpots near the anterior margin. 

 Female paler colour than the male, 



PhaLjEN A Potatoria : alis reverfis fubdentatis flavis, ftriga fulva 



repandaque, punctis duobus albis. — Syfi. Ent. 564. 23. 

 Phaljena maxima alis fulvo flavicantibus. Raj. Inf. 143. 3. 



Goed. Inf. 1. tab. 12. 



Sepp. Inf. 4. 37. tab. 8. 



Schaff. Icon. tab. 67. fig. 10. 11. 



Wilk.pap. 27. tab. 3. b. 2. 



B The 



