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LINNiEUs’ GLYPniPTEBYX. 
wings are dusky, the latter glossed with steel-hlue ; 
anteniue black, whitish at the apex. 
Occasionally found in some plenty, hut by no 
means general. It has been most frequently found 
near London, probably because that neighbourhood 
has been more carefully examined than most other 
places. 
TVHITE-PLUMED MOTH. ' 
Plerophorus Pentadaclylus. 
PLATE XXX. Fig. 3. 
Phal. Alucita. Pentadactyla, Linn.; Don. iv. PI. 110 Tlio 
Large White Plume, Haworth Plumed Moth, Harris' 
Aurel. PI. I, fig. 0 — q Pterophonis Pentadactylus, Lair., 
Steph. 
The last section of the Nocturnal Lepidoptera is 
chiefly composed of such moths as present the very 
remarkable peculiaiitj' of having their wings divided 
from near the base to the apex into separate plume- 
lets or feathers; thus bearing mueh resemblsince 
to the wings of birds. Tlicir bodii.. are long and 
slender, the legs likewise of grc'.i. length and deli- 
cacy, whence they are not unlike some kinds of 
crane-flies, and were in fact from that circumstance 
designated by De Geer, phalrmice- tipulce. In Pte- 
rophorus the anterior wings are variously divided 
in different species into from two to six branches, 
but the posterior pair are always trifid. The larvne, 
