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in the opportunity to perpetuate the name, as a fmall acknowledg- 

 ment for the confidential freedom with which its worthy owner has 

 at all times permitted us to defcribe and copy whatever that cabinet 

 might happen to pofTefs exclufively. — The fpecimen is in the Col- 

 lection of Mr. Francillon. 



FIG. II. 



PHALiENA LITTERANA. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Wings rhombiform : firft pair green, with little elevated tufts and 

 black characters. 



PHALiENA Litterana : alis rhombeis : anticis viridibus : charac- 

 teribus atris. Linn. Sjjl. Nat. 2. 876. 288.— 

 fah. Em. Syjl. T. 3. p. 2.J>. 271. 



Not unlike Phalaena Squamana, figured in a former part of this 

 Work, except in the black charafteriftic marks on the fuperior 

 wings.— This is a very rare and beautiful little creature. 



FIG. 



