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PHAL^NA QUADRIPUSTULATA. 



FOUR SPOT HEATH MOTH. 

 LEPIDOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennss taper from the bafe : wings in general deflecled when at 

 j-eft : fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Phal-ENA quadripustulata. Wings fcalloped, greyifh gloffed 

 with purple, and fpeckled: a imall whitifh fpot in 

 the middle of each wing, and a common irregular 

 line of dots behind. 



An elegant and very rare fpecies of the Geometra family with feta- 

 ceous antennae. This we difcovered fome years ago upon a fandy 

 plain clofe to the Severn fea in the county of Glamorganmire, be- 

 tween Newton and Kenfig. 



This Infeft was taken in the winged ftate the laft week in July, and 

 was obferved to fly in the open day, juft lkimming the furface of the 

 fcanty herbage on the fands. Its flight was amazingly rapid. 



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