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 PLATE CXXXVI. 



PHALiENA HEXADACTYLA, 



Many-feathered Moth. 



Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER, 



Antennas taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed when 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



* Pterophorus. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Wings divided into Feathers, yellowim and grey, with brown 

 Spots. 



Phalasna Hexada£lyla. Linn. Syji. Nat. 



Phal^na Hexadactylus, alis fiflis cinereis, fingulis fexpartitis. 



Fab. Spec. Inf, 2. 312. 7. — Syji. Ent. 

 672. 7. 



Reaum. Inf. I. tab. 19. — Fig. 19. 21. 



Frifch. Inf. 7. tab. 73. 



Among an almofl endlefs variety of fpecies, which the tribes of 

 Infe£ts prefent, few have a more fingular appearance than the little 

 creature we have felected for our prefent fubject. It is perhaps 

 pne of the mod curious pieces of natural mechanifm (if we may be 

 allowed the expreflionj that can be conceived, for of a moft com- 

 plicated fabric which the wings appear, every part, though feparate, 



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* FabrkiuSt 



