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PLATE DLV. 



PHALiENA PHJEORRHCEA. 



BROWN TAIL MOTH. 



LEPIDOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



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

 reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AM) 



SYNONYMS. 



White : rays of the antennae ferruginous : abdomen bearded and 

 fufcous at the end. 



Phaljena Chrysorrhcea. var. Linn.? 



Brown-tail Moth. Curtis Hifl. Brown-tail, A. D. 1782. 



Phaljena PhjEorkikea. Marjh. Linn. Tranf. V. \.p. 68. 



In the defcription of the 10th plate of this work we had occafion 

 to allude, in general terms, to an overfight committed by Linnaeus in 

 «onfounding the Yellow and Brown tail Moths under the fame name 



as 



