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PLATE CCLXVI. 



FIG. I. II. 



PHALJENA LEMMATA. 



SiyiALL White China Mark Moth. 

 Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas taper from the bafe : wings in general deflected when at 

 reft. Fly by night: 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS, 



Antennae fetaceous ; wings fnowy white : a black ftreak next 

 the pofterior margin of the lower pair, inclofing four white fpots. 



pHALiENA Lemnata : feticornis alis niveis : pofticis fafcia termi- 

 nali nigra; punftis quatuor albis. Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 

 £74. 278. — Fn. Sv. 1301.— Fak Ent. Syji. T. 3. p. 2. 

 p. 216. fp. 319. 

 Raj. Inf. 205,- 102. 

 Rectum. Inf. 2. tab. 12. fig. 14, 15. 



Linnaeus and Fabricius defcribe only the male of this fpecies ; 

 the female is rather larger, the colour pale brown, with markings 



fimilar 



