52 PLAT E? CECXLY. 
FIG. I. Wl. 
PHALAENA SPINULA. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Wings variegated brown and grey, with obfcure tranfverfe bars. 
Three diftinet black pointed characters near the apex. 
PHALENA SpPINULA: alis fufco cinereis maculig ftrigifque ob- 
{curis lituris tribus acutiufculis diftinétis nigris 
ad apicem. 
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The fpecimens, fig. 2 and 3, appear at the firft view two very 
diftind Infe&ts ; yet on the moft attentive comparifon of the cha- 
racteriftic marks, we are inclined to confider them as the two fexes’ 
of the fame fpecies, notwithftanding the diffimilarity of their co- 
lours in general. The kind reprefented at fig. 2, and which from 
its fetaceous antenne is evidently the female, has been placed in 
Englifh cabinets as a fpecies fomewhat analogous to the Phalena 
Exoleta, or Sword-blade Moth, under the trivial appellation of the 
fearce Sword-blade Moth. ‘The other, which from the pectinated 
ftructure-of its antennz, is obvioufly the male, is equally uncommon. 
We have obferved feveral figures of this fpecies different only in 
colour in the works of Ernft, and one in particular nearly corre- - 
fponding with that reprefented in the annexed plate at fig. 2, which, 
he calls /pinula; aname we have ventured to adopt, as the Infe& 
is neither defcribed by Linnzeus nor Fabricius. 
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