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FIG. V. 



PHAL^NA CARNELLA. 



Rose coloured Vanear. 



Lepidoptera. 



Phaljena. 



Tinea. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Upper Wings rofe colour, anterior margin whitifh, pofterior 

 yellowifh. Lower Wings pale. 



Tinea CaRNELLa: alis anticis flavis : lateribus fanguineis. Lin. 



Syfi. Nat. 2. 887. 353.— Fab. Spec. Inf. 2. 298. 21. 



Ent. Syjl; Si Pars. 2. 296. 4L.- 



Wierii verz.- 138. 13.- 



Schosff. Icon; tab. 147.- 2; 3.- 



Sulz: Hiji. Inf.- tub. 23. fig. 12,- 

 Purple Vanear? Harris i Inf. 



The Larva of this rare and elegant Infe6l is wholly unknown to 

 Collectors of Britifh Infeft The Moths were formerly taken at 

 the Chalk-pits, near Charlton, in Kent, but either the brood has been 

 deilroyed, or the feafons fo unfavourable, that few, if any, have been 

 feen for feveral years. The Moth comes forth in Ma , and, like 

 other fpecies of the fame tribe, fly very lew, and always fettle on 

 the blades of grafs, with their Wings fc ldeci, fo that Collectors can 

 readily diftinguiih them from other Moths. 



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