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PLATE CCCX. 



PHALi£NA VERNARIA. 



Green House-wife Moth. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae taper from the bafe: wings in general deflefted when 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae feathered, with fetaceous tips: wings angulated, green 

 with two white ftreaks, and margin fpotted with brown and white. 



PhaLjENA Vernaria: pe&inicornis alis angulatis virefcentibus : 

 ilrigis duabus albis repandis, antennis apice fetaceis. 

 Linn. S)Jl. Nat. 2. 858. 195.— Fn. Sv. 1227. 

 Fab. Ent. Syjl. T. 3. p. 2. p. 129. 169. [p. 3, 



A very common and pretty little fpecies of the'Geometra tribe: 

 it is found on the jafmine and honeyfuckle. 



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