AUGUSTA. 
Generic Character. 
Antenna fetaceous, decrcafing in fize from the 
bafe to the point. 
Wings, when at reft, generally deflected. 
Flight moftly no&urnal. 
Specific Character. 
PHALfENA with falcated brown upper wings, 
with a pale figmoid ftreak, and black low 7 er 
wings with a large red fpot, white in the 
middle. 
The elegant infed here reprefented in its natural 
fize is co.nfidered as one of the rareft of the exotic 
Phalasnae. It is principally found in the ifland of 
Amboyna. The under furface of the fuperior wings 
is marked by a few whitiflr, longitudinal ftreaks; 
and in fome fpecimens an oblique ftreak of a paler 
color than the reft of the wing is feen on the upper 
furface; forming a band towards the tip of each 
wing. 
