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PLATE CCLXXII. 



PHAL^NA FURCULA. 

 Kitten Moth. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae taper from the bafe : wings in general defiecled when at 

 reft. Fly by night. 



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SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Thorax variegated: anterior wings grey, fprinkled with black: 

 bafe and apex white, with black fpots : pofterior wings white, with a 

 marginal row of black points. 



PhaLjENA Furcula : thorace variegato, alis grifeis bafi apiceque 

 albis nigro pun£tatis. Linn. Syjl. Nat. 2. 823. 51. — 

 Fn. Sv. 1 122.— Fab. Ent. Syfl. T. 3. p. 1. 475.fp.213. 

 Panz. Faun. Inf. Germ. 4. tab. 20. 

 Wilks pap. 13. tab. 1. fig. 1. 

 Sepp.Inf. 4, 29. tab. 6. 



Phalsena Furcula is a neat and interefting Britifh Infeft. Except 

 in fize it is very fimilar to Phalasna Vinula ; and the Aurelians, from 

 this fimilarity, and a fanciful reference to the brindled appearance 



of 



