E R YC I N A. 
Generic Character. 
Antenna fetaceous, gradually decreafing from the 
bafe to the tip. 
Wings (when fitting) generally deflex: flight 
no(fturnal. 
Specific Character, &c. 
PHALi^NA with feathered antennae, wings 
rounded and very flightly inclining to the 
falcated form: varied with yellow and fer¬ 
ruginous, with a large ovate tranfparent fpot 
on each. 
La VITREE de CAYENNE. 
D'Aubent. pi. enl. 66 . 
If this infed: be really the Phalaena Hefperus of 
Linnaeus, which I am greatly inclined to doubt, it 
feems furprizing that he fhould have conceived it fo 
very nearly allied to the Phalaena Atlas, as fcarce to 
admit of a fpecific reparation. To the Phalaena 
Atlas it indeed bears a general refemblance, but is 
an infed of ftill greater elegance and beauty than 
that 
