PLATE CCCLX. 95 
Ve Ean) 0) Gs 
PHALEHNA MAPPA, 
Map-Winc Swirt Morn. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Wings brown, with large irregular waved livid marks, and four 
diftin& whitifh dots near the apex. 
PHALZNA Mappa: alis fufcis: lituris magnis irregularibus lividis 
punctifque quatuor poftice albidis. 
A Moth of the Hepialus tribe, a new genus in the Fabrician Syftem, 
including only ten fpecies, neither of which agrees with our Infe&; 
there is alfo every reafon to apprehend it is not defcribed by any 
other Author. 
In the Linnzan Syftem, this Infect can only be regarded as a family 
of the Phalzena tribe. The Englifh colleétors have denominated this 
family Swifts, as noticed already in the defcriptions of Humuli and 
Heéia, (plate 274. fig. 1, 2, 3.)—The prefent Infe&t may be con- 
fidered as one of the rareft Englifh undefcribed fpecies, and the mazy 
windings of the numerous {pots and undulations on the anterior wings, 
immediately fuggett the appropriate fpecific name of Mappa, 
