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 PLATE CCCXXXVIII. 



FIG. I. 



> PHAL1NA CUCULLA. 



Maple Prominent Moth. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas taper from the bafe : wings in general deflefled when 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Tongue fpiral : thorax crefled : wings deflected : margin denti- 

 culated, yellow brown clouded with ferruginous and marked ob- 

 liquely with feveral interrupted parallel and interwoven waved ftreaks. 

 A broad white band next the exterior margin. 



Phaljena Cuculla: fpirilinguis, criflata alis deflexis denticu- 

 latis ochraceis maculis ferrugineis, fafciaque 

 marginal! albida ftriis intertexta fufcis. Linn. 

 Sy/L Nat. %l. 



This fpecies is uncommonly rare, and has not, we believe, been 

 figured by any author, unlefsy^-. J. tab. 71. of Efper is intended for 

 the fame in feci:. — It feeds on the maple. 



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