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PLATE XC. 



PH/EL^NA LGEFLINGIANA. 

 ' Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae taper from the bafe. Wings in general contrafted when 

 .it reft. Fly by night. 



T o R T r i x. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Firft wings yellowifh, or buff colour, marked with tranfverfe fhort 

 itreaks of red, or brick colour, alfo two irregular marks of the fame 

 colour, refembling XX, on the anterior margin. Under wings and 

 body lead colour. 



P, Alis anticis flavis luteo reticulars duplici xx notatis. 

 Syji. Ent. 652. 42. 

 Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 878. 305. — Fn. Sv. 1323.— 



Clerk. Phal. Tab. 10. Fig. 6. 



This little Moth has great affinity with the Phal. Forjkahtiana of 

 Linnaeus, the wings are indeed more angulated, but the form of the 

 XX on the upper wings are nearly the fame, and in the general co- 

 lours both of the upper and under wings they perfectly agree. 



Phal. Loefling-iana is found in the greateft abundance on the Oak, 

 in the month of April and May, in the Caterpillar Irate, and in July 

 every Tree that will afford them a moift retreat during the heat of the 

 day, conceals numbers in the winged ftate ; morning and evening they 

 are on the win»", they come forth at day break, fport about the bullies 

 till after fun-rife, and then retire among the thickeft Oak boughs ; a 

 little before fun-fet they come forth again, but conceal themfelves as 

 before about twilight. 



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