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PHALENA STRAMINEA. 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antennz taper from the bafe. Wings, in general, contracted 
when at reft. Fly by night. 
Nocwty as 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne and tongue deep yellow. Head and thorax covered with 
Jong hairs; which, with the fuperior wings, are pale yellow, or bright 
clay colour; in the middle of the fuperior wing is a kidney-thaped {pot 
of dull grey, enclofed by a dark reddifh brown line, which is united 
to the anterior margin by another fpot of the fame colour. Near tie 
exterior margin is a broad obfolete band of pale brown, but where 
it touches the anterior margin it is darker; within this band are nine 
white fpots, or points, and between the band and exterior margin of 
the wing, on the lower edge, is a bright black point; there are feveral 
other reddifh brown points fcattered upon the upper wing, near the 
bafe. The inferior wings are of a yellowifh-white, with a fhade of 
purple, a dark fpot on the middle, anda pale black, broad border, 
with a white fringe. 
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This elegant fpecies of the Noé?ua divifion of Moths, appears to 
be not only a nondefcript, but altogether unknown before; even to 
the beft praétical entymologifts: That an infect of fuch magnitude 
fhould have been unnoticed by Linnaeus, or Fabricius, is not very 
fingular, as feveral nondefcripts of a fimilar, and many of an inferior, 
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