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PLATE. XVL 
PHALEANA ANTIQUA. 
Wuite Spot Tussocx Morn, 
OR 
VAPOURER 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne taper from the bafe: wings in general defleted when at 
seft. Fly by night. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Anterior wings ferruginous, with a white lunule at the pofterior 
angle: female apterous. 
PuaLtana ANTIQUA: alis primoribus ferrugineis: Junula alba 
anguli pofterioris: feminaaptera. Linn. Fn.Suec. 1120, 
Gmel. Linn. Syft. Nat. T. 1. p. 5. 2489. 56. 
ne aE ERR ae Acree: 
The female Vapourer Moth appears at firft fight to refemble an 
apterous infect ; but on infpeétion will be found to exhibit a pair of 
wings of very minute fize at the bafe of the thorax ; and befides this, 
the antenne are alone fufficiently chara@teriftic to determine it an 
_ infeét of the Phalenatribe. It creeps in a fluggifh manner, and lays 
an abundance of eggs, 
Fic. 1. The female. 
Fic. 2. The male. 
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