L E P ID O P T E R A. 
PHALJsNA OSTORIU S. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
An ten nee gradually tapering from the bafe to the tip. Tongue fpiral. Wings in general deflected when 
at reft. Fly by night. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
\Yings fufcous, at the bafe of the anterior ones two white lines running togcthei into a broad white 
band : on the pofterior ones two yellow fpots. 
Bombyx Ostorius : alis fufcis j anticis baft lineis duabus albis in fafciam latam albam coeuotibus, 
pofticis maculis duabus flavis. 
A nondefcript fpecies from New South Wales. 
PHAL1NA LATINUS. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Anterior wings black, with a broad yellow linuous band, and fpecks of yellow at the tips: margin of the 
pofterior wings yellow. 
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Bombyx 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 pa rts 
of Hew Holland. Individuals of this kind vary in colours; for we have lately feen fpecimens in which 
the ground in ftead ot being dark brown appeared almoft black, and glofled with blue, or purple. 
