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PLATE CXXXIl. 



PHALiENA LUNARIA. 



Beautiful Thorn-Moth. 



lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CH4RACTER. 



Antenna; taper from the bafe. Wings, in general deflexed whea 

 st reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Antenna; feathered. Wings angulated, indented ; a lunar fpot 

 near the center of each. General colour, pale red brown, clouded 

 "and fpeckled. 



Kleman Inf. 3. 



Fab. Spec, Inf. 2. 245. 18 f 



We have been furnifhed with the larva of this extremely rare 

 Infeft in a fingular manner : a wafted fpecimen of the female was 

 taken in the Summer of the year 1794, and depofited a quantity of 

 eggs in the box in which it was ftuck ; thefe hatching fome time 

 after, a great number of young Caterpillars were produced ; feveral 

 Of a full fize, patted to the pupa ftate, (in a reddifh web fpun on 

 the leaves) and four fine Moths came forth laft Summer. 



The eggs were very minute, perfedly globular, and of a pale 

 greenifh colour: the clufter confifted of more than feventy, and few 

 of them proved abortive ; but fome of the largeft Caterpillars de- 

 voured 



