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PLATE CCCCXLV1L 



PHAL.ENA URSULARIA. 



THICK-HAIRED MOTH. 

 iEPlDOPTERAo 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae tapering from the bafe ; wings in general deflected when 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



(JEOMETRA, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Phal^ena UftsuLARiA. Thorax thickly clothed with hair : ante- 

 rior wings pale brown, with undulated fufcous waves 

 and dots ; pofterior pair whitiih, 



This moth poffeffes every character of a genuine Bombyx, and 

 might be without fcruple referred to that fection, but for the authority 

 of Mr. Drury who was fo fortunate as to rear it from the caterpillar ; 

 and which being of the looper kind decidedly proves it to be of the 

 Geomctra inftead of Bombyx family. 



The antennae in this infecl as in the Bombyces is much pectinated, 

 the thorax thick, and the body large and bulky. From its general ha- 

 bit it appertains therefore to the full bodied tribe of Geometrae, at the 

 head of winch we may rank the fpecies Hirtaria. This lafl men- 

 tioned infecl is foxlearly of the Bombyx family from its general appear- 

 ance, 



