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 PLATE XVI 



PHAL^ENA ANTIQUA. 



White Spot Tussock Moth, 



or J 



Vapourer. 



Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



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

 reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Anterior wings ferruginous, with a white lunule at the poiterior 

 angle : female apterous. 



PhaljENA Antiqua: alis primoribus ferrugineis : lunula alba 

 angulipofterioris: feraina aptera. Linn. Fn.Suec. 1 120. 

 Cmel. Linn. Syjl. Nat. T. i.p.5. 2439. 56. 



The female Vapourer Moth appears at firft fight to refemble an 

 apterous infetSt ; but on infpe&ion will be found to exhibit a pair of 

 wings of very minute fize at the bafe of the thorax ; and befides this, 

 the antennas are alone fufficiently. charafteriftic to determine it an 

 in feci of the Phalaena tribe. It creeps in a fluggifli manner, and lays 

 an abundance of eggs. 



Fig. I. The female. 



Fig. 2. The male. 



The 



