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PLATE XXXIIL. 
E i G.I. 
PHALAENA BATIS. 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
PEACH-BLOssoM Mor#H. 
* Noftua. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Firft wings fufcous, with five peach-coloured fpots; the lower 
ones cinereous. 
-PHALzNa« Baris: alis primoribus fufcis: maculis quinque incar- 
natis, pofterioribus albidis, Fubr. Sp. duf. 2. 
p. 16. 2. 42. 
Phalena Nofua {pirilinguis levis, alis depreffis: fuperioribus fufcis: 
maculis fimul quinque albidis ; inferioribus albis. 
Linn. Syft. Nat. xii. 2. p. 836. n. 97. 
LEE 
The Peach-bloffom Moth at firft fight fo evidently diftinguifhes 
itfelf, that it can fcarcely be miftaken. The upper or firft pair of 
Wings have the ground of a brown colour, which in fome direétions 
of light affume a golden appearance; and on each Wing are five ele- 
gantly difpofed {pots of white, having each a center of the moft beau- 
taful bloom, or bloffom colour, which blend into the white with the 
mott exquifite foftnefs. The under Wings are of a fimple colour, 
and have only a tranfverfe fhade of a darker hue acrofs the middle of 
each Wing. 
Its 
