LEPIDOPTERA. 
PHALJSNA DELIA. 
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. 
Smooth, wings convoluted and yellow, with two cyaneous bands on the anterior ones. 
Noctua Delia : laevis alls convolutis flavis : anticis fafciis duabus cyaneis. 
Fab. Ent. Syji. T. 3. j>. 2. y>. 25. Sp. 57.— UNFIGURED. 
Fabricius defcribes this elegant infedt from the Bankfian cabinet; the fpecimen was found in 
Tongataboo, or Amfterdam ifland. 
PHAL2ENA AUSTRALASIA. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Wings above and beneath alike black, variegated with white : flripe in the middle of the anterior wings, 
and body orange. 
Noctua Australasi.®; alis concoloribus nigris albo-variegatis : macula magna alba; anticis ftriga 
medio corporeque aurantiis. 
Our Phalaena Auftralafiae is certainly not defcribed by any author. This is from New Holland, and is 
apparently uncommon. 
PtIALANA FESTIYA. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Anterior wings yellowilh, with fomewhat triangular fpots, and a waved ftreak] behind of brown, with 
ferruginous variegations: pofterior wings whitifli. 
Noctua Festiva: alis flavefcentibus maculis fub-triangularibus fafciaque undata poftice fufcis ferrugi- 
neifque variegatis, pofticis albidis. 
Ihe drawing of this charming infedt is taken from a fpecimen in the colledtion of A. M'Leay, Efq. 
who received it from New South Wales. We alfo have obtained it lately from the fame part of New 
Holland, It is a nondefcript fpecies, 
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