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P L A T E LVIIL 



FIG. I. I. 



P H A L JE N A PRUNIELLA. 



Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER, 



P H A L JE N A. 



Antennse taper from the bafe. Wings, in general, contracted 

 when at reft. Fly by night. 



T'l N E Av 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Superior wings brown, inclining to purple ; from the interior mar- 

 gin is extended a bioad white dam along the pofterior margin, nearly 

 two thirds of its length ; but is interrupted near the extremity by a 

 fquare fpot of dark brown. Inferior wings grey. Head and thorax 

 White. Abdomen grey. 



We have copied the name Prunlella, from that celebrated work of 



Clerk, faid to be executed under the immediate inflection of Linnaus 



himfelf : He has figured it in the i ith Plate, Fig. 4. But the great 



fcarcity of that work, there not being twelve copies in this country, can 



have contributed in averyfmall meafure to its being generally known; 



which indeed is the fact, as it does not appear any writer fince that 



time has figured, or even defcribed it. Some were, perhaps, ignorant 



of its having been figured in Clerk's Plates, which however, could 



not have been the cafe with Linnceus; but we cannot find that he has 



defcribed it, or referred to Clerk's figure in any part of his works ; 



Vol. II. I though 



