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PHALENA QUADRA. 

 Spotted Footman Moth. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



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

 reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



s r n o n r m s. 



Thorax fmooth. Wings deprelTed, yellow, with two dark blue 

 fpots on the anterior pair. 



Phal^ena Quadra : lasvis alis depreffis luteis: anticis punclis 

 duobus cyaneis. Linn S)>Jl. Nat. 1. 84.0. 14. 

 — Fab. Ent. Syjl. T. 3. p. 2. p. 24-fp. 54- 

 S chaff. Elem. tab. 98. fig. 5. 

 RoeJ. Inf. i.phal. 2. tab. 17. 



The larva of this fpecies rarely occurs, and the winged Infect is 

 not common. Linnaeus has taken his specific character of this Moth 

 from the four blue fpots on the anterior wings : it is therefore necef- 

 fary to obferve, that the other fex has no fuch- fpots, and has erro- 

 neoufly been made a diftincl: fpecies by the fame author, becaufe it 

 wasdeftitute of them.— Found in the winged ftatein May and June. 



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