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 PLATE XV. 



PHAL^LNA C A J A. 



Great Tyger Moth. 

 Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae taper from the bafe : wings in general deflefted when' at 

 reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Wings fufcous, interfered with rivulets of white: posterior pair 

 red with black fpots. 



J*HALiENA Caja : alis fufcis: rivulis albis, pofteris purpureis nigro 

 punclatis. Linn. Fn. 

 Suec. I. p. 820. 2. n. 1131. 

 Fair. Sp. Inf. 2. p. 198. n. 122. 

 Gmel. T.l.p, 5. 24<i0.fp. 33. 



The fuperior wings in fome examples of this fpecies are marked 

 with fpots of brown, much fmaller in fize than thofe depifted in the 

 prefent infecl: : the fpots in others are alfo occafionally larger, and 

 vary in being more or lefs confluent or united ; the rivulet interfering 



waves 



