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PLATE CXLI. 



PHALiENA DOMINULA. 

 Scarlet Tiger Moth. 



Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae taper from the bafe. Wings, in general contracted 

 when at reft. Fly by night. 

 Bomhyx antenna? of Male feathered, Female fetaceous. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS. 



Firft Wings black gloffy green, with orange and white fpots. 

 Second Wings and Abdomen fcarlet, with black fpots. 



Phaksna Dominula : alis incumbentibus atris, maculis albo flavef- 

 centibus, pofticis rubris nigro maculatis. 

 Fab. Syji. Ent. 583. 93.— Spec. Inf. 2. 200. 

 130. 



Phaljena Dominula. NtSua fpirilinguis laevis, alis depreffis nigris : 

 fuperioribus casruleo flavo alboque, inferioribus 

 rubro maculatis. Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 509. 68 

 edit. 10. 



formerly this beautiful Moth was found in great abundance at 

 CharUm in K*nt, but within the laft two or three years moil rf the 



