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PLATE CCCXVI. 



PHALiENA GONONSTIGMA. 

 Scarce Vapourer Moth. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed when at 

 reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Wings incumbent, brown. Two white fpots on the flrft wings ; 

 one placed on the anterior, and the other nearly oppofite, on the 

 pofterior margin. Female without wings. 



Phaljena Gononstigma : acis incumbentibus fufcis : maculis 

 duabus albis oppofitis, foemina aptera. Linn. SyJI. 

 Nat. 2. 826. 57.— Fab. Ent. Syji. T. 3./. 1. p. 477, 

 7^.217. 



Roef. Inf. I. phal. 2. tab, 40. 

 Albin. Inf. tab. 90. 



The Phalsena Gononftigma, and Phalaena Antiqua are very fimiJar 

 both irr the larva and winged ftate, as well as in the extraordinary 

 appearance of the apterous female. Hence former colkaors of 

 Englifh infe£ts denominated them trivially the Scarce and Common 

 Vapourer Moths. It is evident from thofe allufive names, that the 



latter 



