Pyk, ACL,.B , COEXX XI, 
PHA L AN A DE Le ena ® 
PEASE-BLOSsom Morn. 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antennz taper from the bafe: wings in general deflected when 
at reft. Fly by night. 
SE ECIPIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SY NONYMS. 
Thorax crefted. Firft pair of wings purple with two broad tranf- 
verfe whitifh bars, fecond pair pale brown. 
PHALANA DeELpuinit: criftata alis deflexis purpurafcentibus: fal 
ciis duabus albidis, pofticis obfcuris. Linn. SyA. 
Nat..2. 857. 188.—Fab. Ent. Syft. T. 3. p. 2. 
pe Tea page. 
Geoff. Inf. 2. 164, 109. ; 
Merian. Eurep. \. tab. 40. 
Kicef. Inj. 1. phal. 2, tab..1% 
Panz. Fn. Germ. 7. tab. 17. 
eG, PE 
The Phalena Delphiniu 1s extremely rare. A traditionary opi- 
nion feemed to prevail among{t the old colleftors of Englifh Infeéts, 
B that 
