52 PLATE CCII. 



FabriciuS refers only to one author for this fpecies. He fays it 



feeds on the oak. 



fig. jr. 



PHALvENA ALBICILLATA. 



Clifden Beauty. 

 Lepidoptera. 



PhALjENA, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Antennas fetaceous : wings whitifh in the middle, with a broad 

 margin of pale black ; a large dark fpot on the interior part of the 

 upper wings. 



^halma Albicillata i feticornis alis omnibus nigricantibus: 

 fafcia lata alba immaculata. Linn. Syfi. Nat. 2, 870. 

 2S5.*—Fn. Sv. 1.278.— Fab. Ent. Syfi. 3. 182. 190. 

 Clerk. Icon. tab. 1. fig. \2, 

 Knock. Beytr. 1. 40. 1. tab. 2. fig. 8. 



The trivial appellation, Clifden Beauty, has been given to this 

 InfecT: by fome early Englifh entomologifts, who had not met with 

 it in any other part of the country. It has fmce been taken in 

 feveral other parts of the kingdom ; but in Kent particularly. Clerk 

 deemed it worthy o£ a plc^e araong his r^iti^s ; an a it is {fill con- 

 fidered an exceeding fcarce and fine fpecies. Our fpecimen was 

 taken in June, 1797, in Darent Wood, Dartford. 



FIG. 



