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PLATE CCXLVI. 



FIG. I. 



PHAL^NA PARTHENIAS. 



Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed when 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Wings deflexed. Firft pair with greyifh waved bars acrofs. 

 Second pair orange-red, having a large triangular black fpot at the 

 interior edge. 



Ph aLjENA Parthenias : Linn. Sy/i. Nat. 2. 835. 94. Fn. Sv» 



1160. 

 Bombyx Vidua, alis deflexis fufcis : anticis cinereo fubfafciatis, 



pofticis macula bafeos fafciaque rufiSo Fab. Ent, 



Syjl. T. 3. p. 1. 468, 190. 



This fpecies was defcribed by Linnaeus as Phalana Parthenias; Fa- 

 bricius alters it to Vidua. It is not figured by any author unlefs the 

 Ph. Geom. Glauco fafciata G6zii, figured in Kleman. T. 1. tab. 40. 

 fig. 4, 5, be the fame infeci 



Found 



