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PLATE CCCXXVIII. 



PHAL^NA FAGI. 



Lobster Moth. 

 Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas taper from the bafe : wings in general deflected when 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Wings reverfed, red dim am colour, with two incurvated yellowifli 

 lines acrofs the firft pair. 



Phalina Fag i : alis reverfis rufo cinereis: fafciis duabus lineari- 

 bus luteis flexuofis. Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 8 16. 30. 

 — Fn. Sv. 113.— Fab. Ent. Syji. T. 3. p. 1. 

 p. 422. Jp. 51. 

 Albin. Inf. tab. 58. 

 Wien. Verz. 63. 2. 

 Roe/. Inf. 3. tab. 12. 

 Aft. holm. 1749. 132. tab. 4. fig. 10. 14. 



The trivial name of Lobfter Moth, which this fpecies has acquired 

 from the. Angular form of its larva, cannot be unfamiliar to the Englifli 

 Aurelian, though the Moth itfelf is in the pofTeffion of few. The larva 



was 



