LEPIDOPTERA. 
PHALJENA OSTORIUS. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antennae gradually tapering from the bafe to the tip. Tongue fpiral. Wings in general deflefted when 
at reft. Fly by night. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Wings fufcouSj at the bafe of the anterior ones two white lines running together into a broad white 
band : on the pofterior ones two yellow fpots. 
Bomeyx Ostorius: alls fufcis ; anticis baft lineis duabus albis in fafciam latam albam coeuntibus, 
pofticis maculis duabus flavis. 
A nondefcript fpecies from New South Wales. 
PHAL^NA LATINUS. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Anterior wings black, with a broad yellow finuous band, and fpecks of yellow at the tips : margin of the 
pofterior wings yellow. 
Bomeyx Latinus : alis anticis nigris fafcia lata finuata apice atomifque flavis pofticis flavo marginatis. 
From Botany Bay'. The fame fpecies has alfo been received from New South Wales, and other parts 
of New Holland. Individuals of this kind vary in colours j for we have lately feen fpecimens in which 
the ground in ftead of being dark brown appeared almoft black, and glofled with blue, or purple. 
