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PHALANA SPONSA., 
- Crimson Unperwince Morn, 
GENERIC CHARACTER, 
Antenne fetaceous. Wing deflexed when at reft. Fly by night. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Thorax crefted. Anterior wings greyifh, undulated, fpotted 
with brown. Pofterior pair crimfon, with two black bars acrofs. 
_ Abdomen grey. 
PHALZNA Sponsa: crifta, alis planis cinerafcentibus fufco undu- 
latis: pofticis rubris; fafciis duabus nigris, abdo- 
mine undique cinereo. Linn. Syff. Nat. 2. 841. 
118. Reef. Inf. 4. tab. 19. 
In the defcription of Phalana Nupta, we have offered fome re- 
marks on the Sponfa, Nupta, and Paéta of Linnzus and Fabricius; 
and have only to add in this place, that an accurate figure of 
P. Pacta is given in Fuefl. Archiv. tab. 15. fig. 3. This figure is 
fmaller than the fpecies found in Great Britain, and in particular 
has the upper furface of the abdomen crimfon, as authors have de- 
{cribed it, 
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