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PLATE CCCLXXX. 



FIG. I. I. 



PHAL^ENA SUBOCELLANA, 



SUB-OCELLATED 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. 



* TORTR1X. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 



Tortkix subocellana. Anterior wings white, with fhort 

 oblique black lines at the exterior margin : bale, and dufky fpot near 

 the tip, dotted with black ; a terminal gilt orange ftreak next the pofte- 

 rior margin. 



Specimens of this infecl: have occured to our obfervation, in which 

 the black dots at the bafe of the anterior wings are fo intimately con- 

 nected as to appear like interrupted traniverfe lineations. The ground 

 colour is white : fometimes yellowifh ; and molt exquifitely mottled, 

 and dotted with black and dulky fpots, leaving the center of the dilk 

 immaculate. The pofterior wings are pale. 



This was taken in Kent, in the month of July. The fmalleft 

 figure denotes the natural fize. 



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