THE 
GREAT PEACOCK MOTH. 
Generic Character. 
Antennae setaceous, gradually lessening from 
the base to the tip. 
Mings (when sitting) generally deflected. (Flight 
nocturnal.) 
Specific Character, &c. 
GREAT PEACOCK-MOTH, with whitish-grey 
rounded wings, with dark and pale-brown 
transverse variegations, and large subfenes- 
. trated eye-shaped spot. 
GREAT PEACOCK-MOTH. 
Of all the European Lepidoptera this is by far 
the largest, as well as one of the moil elegant in the 
disposition of its colors. It is not very uncommon 
in many parts of France, Germany, Italy, &c. but 
has never yet been discovered in our own country. 
Linnaeus indeed imagines that the Phakena pavonia 
tninor, or Emperor Moth, is in reality a variety of 
the fame animal; but thy’ there exists the most 
striking 
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