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THE LETTER i:i) MOTH. 

 Phulccnn L'Merunu. 



PLATE LXXX. 



Pliiik-na Littcrana, Linn. Sijst. Nut. ii. p. 876 Fub. KnI. 



Syst. iii. p. 2 — Donovan's Brit. Ins. pi. 355, fig. 2. 



The upper wings are rhombic, and of a leek green 

 colour, spotted and patched with black ; the under 

 wings are of a pale fiiwn coloiu- ; the thorax is of the 

 same colour- as the upper wings, and the abdomen 

 like those of the under wings ; the antenna: taper 

 from the base to the tips. The wings are all fringed 

 round. 



This rare and beautiful little insect is a native 

 of Britain, and is not quite six-eighths of an inch in 

 breadth. It is not unlike the Phalsena Squamma. 



