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PLATE. COCexxxIx, 
PHALANA OLEAGINA. 
GREEN BRINDLED DOT MOTH. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne tapering from the bafe : wings in general deflected when 
at reft. Fly by night. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Wings green-brown with two white fpots, the anterior one pupilia- 
ted, pofterior largeft. 
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PHALENA OLEAGINA: alis viridibus fufco fabundatis: maculis 
duabus albis anteriore pupillata; pofteriore majore. 
Wien. Schmetterl. p. 59. n. 2. 
GREEN BrinpLtzep Dor. Haw. Lep. Brit-p. 120.n. 70. 
We accidentally met with an individual of this fpecies on the wing 
about twilight one fummer’s evening * near Fifhguard in Pembroke- 
fhire, South Wales. It occurred among a number of other infetts of 
the Noétua and Bombyx families by the fide of the low hedges which 
divide the fields and meadows at a fhort diftance from the town. 
This is the only fpecimen we have feen Britifh. 
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* In the month of July 1800. 
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