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 PLATE CXCII. 



PHAL^NA HEXAPTERATA. 

 Seraphim Moth. 



Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas taper from the bafe : wings in general deflected when at 

 reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Anterior wings varied with brown and grey : pofterior white with 

 an appendage refembiing a fmall wing at the bafe of each. 



Phal^ena Hexaptera : feticornis alis fufco grifeoque variis : 

 pofticis albis bafi duplicatis. Fab. Ent. Syji. Tom. 3. 

 p. 2. 193. 233. 



Phalaena Hexapterata. IVien. Verz. 109. 10. 



Fabricius has given an accurate defcription* of this extraordinary 

 In feci: ; but does not refer to any work for its figure. The 

 nineteenth plate of Kleman's Continuation of Roefel's InfeEten- 

 Belujligung, entitled Infe8.en-G<Jcbichte, certainly efcaped his notice j 



* Media Alae antics grifue, fufco undatae imprimis bafi apiceque, in medio parum 

 dilutiores lunula fufca. Pofticse albs ad bafin ala notha, rotundata, alba, imma'culata. 

 Sftbtus oovies cinereje punfte medio, fufco.— Fab, 



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