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PLATE CCXXXIX. 



FIG. I. 



PHAt^NA TREPIDA? 

 Swallow Prominent Moth. 



Lepidoptera. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae taper from the bafe; wings in general defined when 

 9t reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Wings defleaed with a fingle tooth on the back : anterior wings 

 pale in the middle, brown next the margin, and flreaked : a fpot in 

 the centre of the wing. 



Bombyx Trepida: alis deflexis dorfo unidentatis: punclo medio 

 ocellari flrigaque poftica maculari fufcis. Fab. 

 Ent. Syji. 3. p. 1. 449. 130? 



Bombyx tremula. Wien. Verz. 49. 4. 



The Swallow Prominent Moth is fcarce, the larva is fuppofed to 

 live under the bark of Willows, but it is more certain that the Moth 

 is feldom found, except among thofe trees. In the day-time it has 

 been feen againft the trunk of trees, in the manner reprefented in 

 the Plate. 



We quote the authority of Fabricius with diffidence ; his character 



is ambiguous ; and cannot be pofitively defined by the very general 



defcription he has added to it. 



FI G. 



