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PLATE CCCCLXXXV. 



FIG. I. II. 



PHAL^ENA LINEATARIA. 



PALE TRIPLE-BAR MOTH. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae gradually tapering from the bafe to the tip : tongue fpiral : 

 wings in general deflected when at reft. Fly at night. 



* GEOMETEA. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Phaljena lineataria. Pale : anterior wings with an oblique 

 bilineated band at the bafe : trilineated band near 

 the tip : bar in the middle angulated, and inclofing 

 a dot near the coftal margin : pofterior pair fubli- 

 neated : exterior margin of all the wings dotted. 



This we are inclined to confider as an extremely rare fpecies. The 



fpecimen reprefented in the upper part of the plate, and to which the 



figure I. is annexed, will be obferved, at the firft view, to differ from 



that Ihewn beneath at figure II. in the diftinclnefs of its markings; 



but this alone feems to conftitute their real difference, as every lineation 



in the lower fpecimen accords with thofe exhibited in the infect fhewn 



above. The latter appears to be either a pale variety, or an example 



of the fpecies in lefs perfecl; condition than the other. Both infe&s 



are fliewn in their natural fize. 



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