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PLATE III. 



PHAL^NA BUCEPHALA. 



Buff-tip moth. 



Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER, 



Antenna taper from the bafe. Wings in general defle&ed when 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS 



Anterior wings cinereous, with two ferruginous ftreaks, and a 

 large yellow fpot at the end. 



Phalenj, bucephala: alis cinereis : ftrigis duabus ferrugineis 

 maculaque terminali magna flava. Lin. Fn. Suec. 

 1H5. 



The delicate affernblage of beautiful down which clothe the upper 

 wings of the Buff-tip Moth is its chief recommendation ; the hiftory 



affords 



