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PLATE CCXXXIII. 



PHALiENA PRUNARIA. 



Phcenix Moth. 

 Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae taper from the bafe : wings in general defle£led when at 

 reft. Fly in the night. 



Geometra. 

 SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Antennas fetaceous : anterior wings varied brown and grey, with 

 two broad pale waved bands, the poflerior one nearly terminal. 



Phal/ENA Prunaria : feticornis alis grifeo fufcis : fafciis duabus 

 pallidis repandis : poftica femiterminali, Linn. Syft. 

 Nat. 2. 869. 250.— -Fn. Sv. 1267.— Fab. Ent.SyJi. 3. 

 p. 2. p. 178. 175. 

 Wien. Verz. 115. 19. 

 Clerk. PhaL tab. 7. fig. 3. 

 Ammlral. Inf. tab. 23. fig. 1. 4. 



Fabricius defcribes the larva of this rare Moth :— It is afh-coloured, 

 with a black collar or mark on the neck : feet reddifh brown, and 

 the black fpotted with the fame colour, 



The 



