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winged state hovering about aquatic plants in ditches, and other watery 

 places. This is a very common fpecies, and is frequently found 

 drowned, and lying on the furface of the water where aquatic plants are 

 abundant. 



F I G. II. 

 PHALiENA STAGNATA. 



PEARL CHINA MARK, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



PhaljeNA stagnata : wings white, with two irregular common 

 fubfufcous bands; the outer one furcating from the middle of 

 the anterior wings to the coftal margin. 



The general colour of this infect is a beautiful delicate white, with a 

 perlaceous nue. The tranfverfe fufcous bands are fo difpofed on the 

 anterior wings as to give it fomewhat of a reticulated appearance, but 

 lefs fo than in Phalaena Potamogata, and feveral other fpecies of Chi- 

 na-marks, as Englifh collectors denominate them. The bands on 

 the pofterior wings are not in any manner reticulated. This does not 

 appear to be a very common fpecies. 



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