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P L A T E LXXVL 



PHAL^ENA FUNALIS, 



Festoon Moth. 



Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennse taper from the bafe. Wings, when at reft, generally 

 Contra&ech Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Upper wings orange, rather inclining to brown ; with a black line 

 nearly of a triangular form on each ; when the wings are expanded 

 the lines referable a feftoon. Under wings orange, clouded and 

 frofted with black j margin pale* 



We are happy to prefent our Subfcribers with the figure of a Moth 

 Which is fcarcely known among the Englifh Colledors, and we may 

 venture to affert on the beft authority has not a place in any cabinet 

 of Infeds in this metropolis, except that of the Author j indeed the 

 only perfon who appears to have been fo fortunate as to meet with >t 

 except himfelf, is Mr. Lewin, who formerly refided at Dartford; he 

 confidered it as fuch an invaluable rarity, that had not a figure of it 

 been difcovered in RoefeU it would no doubt have been pubhihcd m 

 the Tranfaaions of the Linn*an Society * it muft, however, be ob- 

 ferved, that the Infea M*fA h* figured is a foreign fpecimen. 



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