bro. 4 
Po AD & GGXIUE, 
PHALANA PRECOX. 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
GENERIC (HAR AGT bk, 
Antennz taper from the bafe: wings in general defleted when at 
reft. Fly by night. 
SPECIEIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS, | 
Nocrua. 
Thorax crefled: wings defle€ted: anterior pair afhecolour with 
two {pots, and a fhort dafh of red behind. 
PHALENA Pra&cox: criftata alis deflexis cineris bimaculatis: pof- 
ticis fafcia rufa abbreviata——Linn. Sy/t. Nat. 2. 8546 
174.—Fab. Ent. Syft. I. 3. p. 2. 97. 289. 
Roef. Inf. 1. phal. 2. tab. 51. 
When the late Duchefs of Portland honoured the fcientific as 
well as praétical part of Entomology with her patronage, her Grace 
difcovered, and reared from the Caterpillar ftate, feveral {pecies of the 
Phalzna tribe, not before known as natives of this country ;, and 
among the number of thofe may be enumerated this elegant {pecies. 
The brood was found in one of the Portland ules. 
| G3 Fabricius 
