PLATE CCXIV. 



PHALiENA RUSSULA. 



Clouded Buff Moth. 

 Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae taper from the bafe ; wings in general deflected when at 

 jreft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Wings deflected; yellow; margin fanguineous with fufcous Iunule: 

 antenna; red. 



PHAUiENA Russula: alis deflexis luteis : margine fanguineo 

 lunulaque fufca, antennis fanguineis. — Fab. Ent. Syjl. 

 I. 3. p. 1. 180.— Linn. Syjl. Nat. 2. 830. 71. 

 Schaff. Icon. tab. 83. fig. 4, 5. 

 Clerk. Icon. tab. 4. fig. 1. 

 Raj. Inf. 22$. 75, 



As the Phalaenas are not remarkable for a variety of gay colours, 

 like thofe of the Papilio genus, an exception to a general rule in 

 the beautiful fpecies before us, more flrongly demands our notice. 

 The male Phalasna Rufiula, which is known by the pectinated antennas, 

 is of a fine golden yellow, with a rich, though narrow marginal band 

 of fanguineous red round the wings. The female is a pretty Infect, 

 but is more inclined to brown throughout than the male. 



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