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FIG. iir. 



PHALiENA RUBRO-VIRIDATA, 



BULLSTRODE GREEN CARPET MOTH. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Phaljena rubro-viridata. Anterior wings greenifh, tinged 

 with rufous : bafe and broad band in the middle 

 fubfufcous : pofterior wings biownifh, 



Phaljena rubro-viridata. Marjh. M.S. 



Phaljena psittacata. Fair. Ent. Syft. 3. 195. 238 ? 



Occurs in the winged ftate in the month of October. 



We are not without fufpicion, that the moth reprefented in that 

 fcarce work, the " Icones" of Clerk, (fig. 8. pi. 4.) may be intended 

 for an infecl of this fpecies. The figure appears without any 

 name. 



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