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PLATE CCCLXXVII. 



PHALINA RHEDIELLA, 



RHEDI'S TINEA-MOTH. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae gradually tapering from the bafe to the tip : wings in ge- 

 neral deflected when at reft. Fly by night. 



* TINEA. 

 SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 

 Wings black : tip fulvous, with interrupted filver streaks. 



PhaLjKNA Rhediella: alis nigris apicefulvis: ftrigis interruptis 

 argenteis. Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 444. — Fn. Suec. 

 1405.— Fabr. Ent. Syji. T. 3. p. 2. 324. 161. 



Clerk Ic. t. 12. /. 12. 



This is a pretty, and by no means uncommon infe6t in England. 

 Linnaeus named it fpecifically Rhediella, in compliment to Rhedi, the 

 author of feveral well known traces on Natural Hiftory, that appeared 

 about the end of the feventeenth century. The infecl is figured in 

 Clerk's Icon, a work executed under the immediate direction of 

 Linnasus. 

 vol. xi. H HG. 



