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PLATE CCCLXXXVIIX, 



PHALiENA MENDICA, 



SPOTTED MUSLIN MOTH. 

 LEPIDOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae gradually tapering from the bafe to the tip : tongue fpiral i 

 wings in general deflected when at reft. Fly by nigh^t. 



* JBombyx. 

 SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS, 



Wings of the male brown and obfcure : thofe of the female, white 

 ^ind pellucid, both dotted with black. 



PhaljeNA mendica : alis deflexis nigro pun£tatis, femoribus anticis 

 luteis. Linn. Syjl. Nat. 2. S22- 47—Gmel. Linn. 

 Syjl. Nat. 2423. n. 47- 



PhaljenA mendica. Fabr, Ent, Syjl. 3. 452. n. 139- Mas 

 cinero fufcus, faemina albida punctis aliquot nigris. 

 Femora antica barba lutea. Abdomen concolor. 

 ibid. 



fu aljen A men di c a, Marjh, in Linn, Tranf. T. 1 , p. 1% 



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