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PLATE CCCLXIX. 



FIG. I. I. 

 PHAL^NA TRIMACULANA, 



THREE-SPOT TORTRIX-MOTH. 

 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Generic character. 



Antennae gradually tapering from the bafe to the tip ; wings in ge= 

 neral deflected when at reft. Fly by night. 



* TORTRIX. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Tortkjx trimaculana : anterior wings teftaceous and fufcous 

 varied : a pale angular tranfverfe band near the bafe ; 

 and whitiih fpace, inclofing three fmall dark dots 

 behind. 



A pretty fpecies, and moderately large. The ground colour 

 chiefly teftaceous, varying from pale to darker in different fpecimens,, 

 The broad tranfverfe angular band, and fpot inclofing three fmall dots 

 behind, are fumciently characleriftic of this infect. It has alfo feveral 

 (lender whitiih lines, difpofed obliquely at the outer edge of the wing, 

 and at the apex a fmall fubocellated fpot. We have not obierved any 

 defcription either of this, or the third fpecies reprefented in our plate 

 369, in any work, the fecond fpecies appears in Hubner's Beitrage mr 

 Gefchichte der Schmetterlinge, fyc. 



ol. xr. 



E HG. 



