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 PLATE LXXVII. 



FIG. I. and F I G. II. 



PHAL^NA CRISTALANA. 



Dark-button Moth. 



Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas taper from the bafe. Wings, in general contracted when 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



Tortrix. 

 SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Upper wings yellow-brown, with dark fhades ; a broad irregular 

 white mark, and a tuft or button, on the center of each. Head and 

 thorax white clouded. Lower wings pale brown. 



This fingular Moth is very rarely met with; it has been taken in 

 Coombe-wood, Surry, and in Kent, but even in thofe places it is very 



uncommon. 



It is diftinguiihed by the unufual form of the white markings on the 

 upper wings, and particularly by the tuft or button which is fituated 

 in an upright pofition near the center of each; thofe tufts appear only 

 flightly feathered on the upper parts to the naked eye, but when one 

 of them is examined with a microfcope, or even common magnifier, 

 it prefents the appearance of a bundle of fibres, inclofed within a thin 

 membrane; narrow at the bafe, encreafmg in bulk near the middle, 



and 



