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PHALZNA PAVONIA. 
Emprror-Moru. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne tapering from the bafe: wings in general defleéted when 
at reft. Fly by night. ; 
Bombyx. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS 
Wings rounded, grey, clouded, and barred with brown; an 
ocellar femitran{parent fpot in the middle of each wing. 
PHALANA pavonia: alis rotundatis grifeo nebulofis fubfafciatis ; 
ocello nititante fubfeneftrato. Linn. Fn. Suec. 109%. 
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: The male is fmaller than the female, its colours much darker on 
= upper wings, the lower orange, and the antennz as in the reft of 
the Bombyces confiderably pe€tinated, while thofe of the female are 
Saree The caterpillar is of a green colour, with a black ring 
“rrounding each joint, and every ring is befet with feveral yellowith 
tubercles, 
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