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 PLATE CIIL 



PHALiENA QU E R C U S. 



Large Egger Moth, 



lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antenna taper from the bafe. Wings, in general, contrafted, 

 when at reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Antenna of the Male feathered. Wings dark brown, with a 

 bright yellow bar acrofs each, and a ftrong white fpot on the center 

 of each fuperior wing.-Female marked like the Male, but of .paler 

 colour. 



Phal^ena Quercus. Linn. SyJI. Nat. 2. 814. *$—Fn. 

 Sv. 1 106. 



PHALiENA maxima fulva, alarum exteriorum fuperioritate in- 

 tenfius colorata, cum macula in media alba, inferiors 

 dilutiore. Raj. Inf. 142- 2. 



Merian. Europ. I.tab. 10. 



Harris. Aurel. pi. 29. a. b. c. d. e.f, 



Albin. Inf. tab. 18. fig. 25. 



Reaum. Inf. I. tab. 35. 



Ammiral Inf. tab. 31. 



Roef. Inf. 1. phal. 2. tab. 35. 



Petiv. Gazoph. tab. 45. fig. 5. 



God. Inf. X. 51. tab. 7. 



