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PLATE CCCLXIIL 

 FIG. I. 



PHALUNA POTAMOGATA. 



CINEROUS CHINA- MARK MOTH. 

 LEPIDOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antenna tapering from the bafe : wings in general deflefted when at 

 reft. Fly by night. 



* GEOMETRA, 

 SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Wings cinereous, with white fpots : anterior pair obsoletely reti- 

 culated. 



Phal^na Pot a mo gat a: feticornis alis cinereis albo maeulatis : 

 anticis obfolete reticularis. Linn. Syft. Nat. Q, 

 873. 275.— Fn. Suec. 1299- 

 Fabr. Ent. Syft. T. 3. p. 2. p. 213. fp> 313. 



The larva of this fpecies is fuppofed to feed principally oil the Pota* 

 megaton nutans from which circumftance it has been called fpecifi- 

 cally Potamogata. It appears early in the month of June in the 



vol. xi. C winged 



