5ft PLATE CCCCLXXXVlf* 



FIG. II. 

 PHAUENA -CUNEATA. 



CUNEATE MOTH. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Piialjena Cuneata. Anterior wings fufcous, with two pale 

 broad bands, the inner one angulated, and the 

 exterior marked in the middle with a tingle 

 feries of cuneate fufcous fpots. 



A fpecies of very ftriking appearance, and fufficiently diftinguiflied 

 by the feries of wedge-formed fpots difpofed along the pale exterior 

 band of the upper wings. The fufcous ground colour forms a pretty 

 broad and diftin6l band in the middle of the wings, and is further cha- 

 racterized by an oblong, and fomewhat paler fpot, contiguous, to the 

 anterior margin, as well as a geminous or rather bipupillate fpot at the 

 pofterior edge of the fame band. The lower wings are whitifh, with 

 pale fufcous fcalloped marginal lines, and a duiky dot in the middle. 



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