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THE PUSS MOTH. 
Phalena Vinula. 
PLATE XXXVI. 
Phalana vinula, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. p. 815, No. 29.— 
Wilk’s Pap. tab. 13. fig. 1. » 1.—Donovan’s Brit. Ins. 
iii. p. 33. pl. 85. —Cerura vinula, (Schrank, ) Rennie’s Con- 
spectus, p. 32. 
Tue antenne are feathered; the wings gray, 
streaked, and waved with dull black zigzag lines, 
somewhat diaphanous; the thorax and abdomen 
are gray, spotted with black. The wings of the 
male are from two inches and a half to two inches 
and three quarters in extent, while those of the 
female are from three inches and a twelfth to a 
third. They are of an ashy gray colour; the first 
pair with the upper edge spotted with black; the 
nervures are yellow ; they have two convergent and 
slanting rows of black spots near the base, followed 
by a brown waved streak ; towards the middle a 
black crescent pointing outwards, between which 
and the tip are two very acutely waved brownish 
slanting streaks. The second pair of wings have a 
dingy crescent spot on the disc, and one or two 
spots on the hinder margin, towards the posterior 
angle. 
