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PLATE DXVIL 



PHALiENA INSCRIPTATA, 



LETTERED MOTH. 

 LEPIDOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



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Anterinae taper from the bafe : tongue fpiral ; wings in general 

 deflected when at reft. Fly by night. 



* * * Geometra* 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



PHALiENA inscriptata. Pale, anterior wings banded and 

 lineated : with two dufky characters, and a whitifh 

 A in the difk of the middle band : posterior wings 

 with fcalloped lines. 



The two moths repfefented in this plate, are beyond difpute, varie- 

 ties of the fame fpecies, that delineated in the upper part of the plate 

 differing only in having the anterior wings and bands darker than 

 the other : the chara6ters on both are the fame, being two fmall 

 dufky letter-like marks, one of which remotely refembles the hebrew 

 Jcametz (*) and a little behind thefe is a pale or whitifh greek a 



▼ot, xy, E (lambda.) 



