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PLATE CCCXXXIX. 



PHAL/ENA SULPHURALIS. 

 Margate Beauty. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae taper from the bafe : wings in general deflected when 

 {it reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Firfl; wings yellow, with irregular connected ftreaks of black 

 fpots, and detached marks of the fame colour on the anterior margin : 

 fecond pair brown. 



Phalasna Sulphuralis. Linn. Syjl. Nat. 2. 881. 333. 

 Bombyx Lugubris : alis deflexis flavis : rivulis punflifque atris, 

 pofticis fufcis. Fab. Ent.SyJl. T. 3. p. I. p. 467. 

 /p. lS8.Scbaffi Icon. tab. 9. fig. 14, 15. 



A fcarce infect in this country. It is faid to have been firft dif- 

 covered at Margate, and from that circumftance was afterwards 

 known amongft Englifh collectors by the name of Margate Beauty. — 

 Another infeft, by no means fimilar, has however received the 

 fame name, having been met with at Margate likewife. 



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