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FIG. II. II. 

 PHALiENA TRIFASCIANA. 



THREE BANDED TORTRIX MOTH. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 

 Wings whitith, with three brown bands margined with black dots. 



Tortrix trifasciana: alis albis : fasciis tribus fufcis ; tertia 

 nigro pun&ata. Fahr. Ent. Syft. T. 3. p. 2. 



p. 248. fp. 25. 



There can fcarcely remain the flighted doubt of this being the 

 fpecies of Tortrix defcribed by Fabricius from the cabinet of Dr. 

 Allioni, under the name of trifafciana, prefuming however that the 

 infect Fabricius faw, muft have been in lefs perfect condition than 

 our fpecimen : he defcribes the fituation of the three bands very 

 exactly, one at the bafe of the wing, the fecond oblique acrofs the 

 middle, and the third at the tip, the laft of which he obferves are 

 dotted with black. To this we may add, that when perfeft, all the 

 bands are circumfcribed within a double feries of black dots, although' 

 thofe on the brown ftripe at the tip are commonly moft confpicuous. 

 Taken in Coombe Wood, Surrey. 



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