LE P IDO PTE R A. 
P H A L A N A DELIA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antennas gradually tapering from the bafe to the tip. Tongue ipiral. Wings in general deikaed when 
at reft. Fly by night. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Smooth, wings convoluted and yellow, with two cyaneous bands on the anterior ones. 
Noctua Delia : laevis alis convolutis flavis : anticis fafciis duabus cyaneis. 
Fab. Ent. Syjl. T . 3 . p. 2. p. 25 . Sp. 57 .— UNFIGURED. 
Fabricius defcribes this elegant infea from the Bankfian cabinet 5 the fpecimen was found in 
Tongataboo, or Amfterdam ifland. 
P II A L M N A A U S T R A L A SIM. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Wings above and beneath alike black, variegated with white : ftripe in the middle of the anterior wings, 
and body orange. 
Noctua Australasia: alis concoloribus nigris albo-variegatis: macula magna alba j anticis ftriga 
medio corporeque aurantiis. 
Our Phalaena Auftralafiae is certainly not defcribed by any author. This is from New Holland, and is 
apparently uncommon. 
P II A L JE N A FES T I V A. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Anterior wings yellowifh, with fomewhat triangular fpots, and a waved ftreak* behind of brown, with 
ferruginous variegations: pofterior wings whitifh. 
Noctua Festiva: alis flavefcentibus maculis fub-triangularibus fafciaque undata poftice fufcis ferrugi- 
neifque variegatis, pofticis albidis. 
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The drawing of this charming infeft is taken from a fpecimen in the colleftion of A. NFLeay, 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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