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PLATE XXI. 



PHAL^NA PRUNARIA. 

 Orange Moth* 

 Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas taper from the bafe t wings in general defle&ed when at 

 reft. Fly by night. 



* Geometra. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Antennae pe&inated : wings fomewhat indented, yellow, pow- 

 dered with fufcous, and a fufcous lunule in the middle of the ante- 

 rior ones. 



PhaLjENA PRUNARIA: peflinicornis fubdentatis luteis fufco 

 pulverulentis : anticis lunula fufca. Linn. Syjt. 

 Nat. 2. 861. 208.—^. Suec. 1232. 



Fahr. Ent. Syjl. T. 3. p. 2. 141. 43. 



Wlen Verz. 104. 17- 



Schaefflcon. tab. If. fig. 2. 3. 



Albin. Inf. 42. tab. <?9. 



Variable in colour from yellow to deep orange, and the fpot in 

 the middle of the anterior wings fometirnes much larger th^n uftu 



The 



