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PLATE CCXXXIII. 



The trivial Englifli name, Phoenix Moth, has been given to thii 

 Infea from a circumftance little known, and fcarcely deferving 

 notice, except as it proves the impropriety of naming InfeBs from 

 local circumftances, when any other can be well applied. A fmall 

 part of a wood near London had been cut down, and a quantity of 

 charcoal made on the fpot. This place had been often vifited by 

 Aurelians, but the Phaelaena Prunaria had never been discovered there, 

 nor indeed was then known as a Britifli Infea. On the following 

 year, when the ground was cleared, and the underwood grown up, 

 this Moth was found ; it continued to be taken conftantly in the 

 months of June and July for many years, in this place, and then 

 totally difappeared. The late Mr. Bentley, known as a collector of 

 Englifli lnfefts, difcovered a breeding-place of this Moth on Epping 

 Foreft, and commonly found three or four fpecimens every feafon. 

 We are now certain that it occurs, in abundance in various other 

 parts of the kingdom. It feeds on the thorn, plumb, and currant. 



FIG. II. II; . 



PHALyENA DUPLICATA. 

 SPECIFIC CHARACTER ■ 



AND 



SYNONYMS'. 

 Firft wings grey, with three tranfverfe fufcous waved lines. 



PHALiENA Duplicata: feticornis, alis grifeis, fafciis duabus 



trilineatis fufcis. Fab. Ent. Syjl. 3. p. 2. p. 193. 



234. 

 PHALiENA Plagiata: feticornis, alis anticis canis : fafciis tribus 



trilineatis nigricantibus repandis. Linn. Syjl. Nat.— 



Fn. Sv. p. 334. n. 1271. 



Phal. 



