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FIG. III. 

 PHALiENA MIATA. 



AUTUMN GREEN CARPET. 

 SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Phaljena miata. Wings grey-green, with three greenifli bands ; 

 the middle one waved with brown: pofterior 

 wings pale, with faint fcalloped bands, and central 

 dot. 



PHALiENA miata : alis grifeis : fafciis tribus viridibus : inter media 

 latiore fufco undata. Linn. Syfl. Nat. 2. S69- 

 249. — Clerk. Icon, pi 8. fig. 2. 



PhauenA miata. Fab. Ent. Syft. 3. 180. 183. 



Appears in the winged ftate late in Autumn, whence it has obtained 

 the name of Autumn Green Carpet. The fpecies varies id point of 

 colouring as well as fee, and alio feenis to be very local, if not rare. 

 Anion- the collectors near London, it is rather better known by the 

 title of Dartford Green Carpet, (from being met with chiefly m the 

 woods adjacent to the town of Dartford, in Kent) than by that of 

 Autumn Green Carpet. 



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