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PLATE LXXL 



PHALiENA VILLICA. 

 Cream-spot Tyger Moth. 

 Lepidoptera. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae taper from the bafe. Wings in general contracted when 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



* No Trunk. Wings depreiTed, deflexed. Back fmooth. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Antennse, head, and thorax black, with a white fpot on each fide 

 the latter. Firft wings black, with eight large cream-coloured fpots. 

 Second wings and body orange, with black fpots. 



Syjl. Ent. 2. 581. 85. 



Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 820. 41. 



Geoff. Inf. 2. 106. I. 



Harris. Aurel. Tab. 4. 



Raj. Inf. 156. 4. 



Alb. Inf. Tab. 21. 



Frifch. Inf. 10. Tab. 2. 



Reaum. Inf. 1. Tab. 31. Fig. 4. 6. 



Roes. Inf.4.. Tab. 28. Fig. 2. 



_. Tab. 29. Fig. I. 4. 



Wilk. Pap. Tab. 3. a. 2. 



Chickweed is a favorite food with the Caterpillars of this Infect, 

 but it will eat the leaves of the currant, white-thorn, nettle, grafs, 

 &c. if the former cannot be readily procured, 



The 



