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PLATE’. CGT, 
PHALENA ABISINTHIL. 
Wormwoop Morn. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antennz taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed when 
at reft. Fly by might. 
* Noétua. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Thorax crefted. Wings deflexed: white, fafciated and {potted with 
black in a fomewhat quadrangular manner. 
PHaAL@na ABISINTHII: crifta alis deflexis canis: faciis punc- 
tifque in tetragonum pofitis nigris. Linn. Sy/i. 
Nat. 2. 845. 133.—- Fn. Sv. 1182. Fab. Ent. Syft. 
Te Bp 2p) Cony po 20. 
Phalena Abifinthii is certainly an elegant fpecies, and particularly 
interefting as a native of this country. A few years fince it was very 
highly efteemed by collectors of Englifh natural hiftory, and at pre- 
fent it holds a diftinguifhed rank amongft the more valuable infects 
of our cabinets. Has been found on fome wormwood in Bunhill- 
fields, about twenty years ago. 
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