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F I G. III. 



PHALjENA LYNCEATA. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Wings white, with two brown tranfverfe bands, and a brown fpot 

 near the apex. 



Phaljna Lynceata : alis albis : fafciis duabus punftoqne apicis 

 fufcis. Fab.fpec. Inf. 1. p. 262. n. 129. Gmel. 

 Linn. Syji. 2478. 



This Infe£t, though very common in our woods, was unknown to 

 Fabricius before his vifit to Great Britain ; he firft defcribed it in the 

 fpecies Infeciorum, under the fpecific name of Lynceata, as an Englifh. 

 Infect : it has fince appeared in his other publications, and has been 

 inferted byGmelinin the laft Edition of the Syftema Naturse. 



. The Linnean defcription of P. ocellata coincides fo nearly with 

 this Infed, that we may doubt the propriety of feparating them ; 

 they are probably varieties only of the fame Species, 



It is very common in June, 



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