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 PLATE DXLIII. 



PHALJENA MARGARITARIA. 



LIGHT EMERALD MOTH. 

 LEP1DOPTEKA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae taper from the bafe : wings in general deflected when at 

 reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Wings angular, whitilh green with a deeper band terminating in a 

 white ftreak. 



PhaljEna Margaritaria. Linn. Syji. Nat. 5. 865. 231. 

 Phaljena Margaritaria: alis angulatis albidis: faturatiore ftriga 

 alba terminata. Fab. Ent. Syji. 3. 131. 10. 



Geometra Margaritaria. Hiibn. Schmett Geom. 3. 13. 



Inhabits England and Germany in woods, and feeds principally on 

 the Carpinus and Betula. The Moth appears in July and Anguft 

 Its larva is defcribed : the form is elongated, with two white dots on 

 the laft fegments: tail bifid, and feet twelve in number. 



Both fexes of this Moth are reprefented in the annexed plate ; that 

 with the antennae larger or more deeply pe&iuated is the male. 



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