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PLATE CCXLVIII. 



FIG. I. II. 



PHAL^NA ATOMARIA. 

 Dark Heath Moth. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed when 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



/ AND 



• SYNONYMS. 



Antennas feathered. Wings entirely yellowifh; with bands of 

 brown, and the whole thickly fprinkled with atoms of the fame 

 colour. 



PhaLjENA Atomaria : pe&inieornis ; alis omnibus lutefcentibus 



fafciis atomifque fufcis. Linn. Faun. Suec. 1245 



- Syji. Nat. p. 862. n. 214. 

 Phalasna ifofelata. Scop. cam. 558. female. 

 Phalasna pennata. Scop. cam. 569. male. 



The Dark Heath Moth is confidered as the Phalaena Atomaria of 

 Linnaeus, in the Faun. Suec. and Syjiema Naturae. Fabricius adopts 

 the Linnaean character, though in the Synonyms it is confounded 

 with another Geometrce, the Hirtaria oi fome entomologifts. He 

 refers to the Phalcena iJJ'ofelata and Phalana pennata o\ Scopoli, which 

 are evidently the two fexes of the Dark Heath Moth ; but the Infeft 

 figured in Plate XXXIV. Kleman's Inf. is very diftincl, and is the 

 P. Hirtaria before alluded to. We cannot but obferve how ciofely 



the 



