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PLATE CCLXVII. 



FIG. I. II. 



PHAL^NA DEGEERELLA. 

 Long-Horned Japanned Moth. 



Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae, taper from the bafe : wings in general deflefted whea 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



Tinea. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



and 

 SYNONYMS. 



Black, glofled with golden : anterior pair with a yellow band : 



antennae very long. 



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PhaLjENA Degeerella : alis atro aureis : fafcia flava, antennis 

 longis. Linn. S)ft. Nat. 2. 895.426. — Fn.Sv. 1393. 

 Alucita Degeerella. Fab. Ent. Syjl. T. 3. p. 2. p. 341. 40. 



The two fexes of this beautiful and extraordinary little Infe£l has 

 been defcribed as diftinft fpecies. They differ principally in the 

 form and fize of the antennae ; in the female tbefe are entirely feta- 

 ceous, oi like a fine hair, and three times the length of the body : 

 the antennae in the male are {horter, and thick in the middle, not 

 very unlike thofe of fome kinds of Sphinges. It is not an uncommon 

 infect in hedges in May and June. 



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