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PLATE CCLXIII. 



FIG. I. 



PHALlNA PINE TELL A, 

 Pearl Veneer Moth. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae, taper from the bafe : wings in general deflected when at 

 reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Firft wings yellowifh brown, with two large whitiih, or pearl- 

 like (pots, the anterior one oblong, pofterior ovate. 



Tinea Pinetella : alis anticis flavis: maculis duabus albiflimis, 

 anteriore oblonga, pofteriora ovata. Linn. Syji. Nat, 

 2. 886. 356.— Fn. Sv. 1368. Fab. Ent. Syji. T. 5. p. 

 ft 294. 



Clerk, phal. tab. 4. fig. 7, 

 Panz. Faun. Gtrtn. 6. tab. 22, 

 Wien. Werz. 134. 7. 



We met with a fpecimen of this beautiful little Moth, in June 

 1798, in Norwood. It is certainly a rare and interefting Britifh 



J3 2 f pecies ; 



