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PLATE LVI. 
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PHALENA PRUNIELLA, 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
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Antennz taper from the bafe. Wings, in general, contracted 
when at reft, Fly by night. ; 
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SPECIFIC CHARACTER. ‘ 
Superior wings brown, inclining to purple; from the interior mar- 
gin is extended a broad white dafh along the pofterior margin, nearly 
two thirds of its Jength ; but is interrupted near the extremity by a 
fyuare {pot of dark brown. Inferior wings grey- Head and thorax 
white, Abdomen grey. 
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We have copied the name Pruniella, from that celebrated work of 
Clerk, faid to be executed under the immediate infpeCtion of Linnaeus 
himfelf; He has figured it in the r1th Plate, Fig. 4. But the great 
{carcity of that work, there not being twelve copies in this country, can 
have contributed in a very fmall meafure to its being generally known ; 
which indeed is the fa&, as it does not appear any writer fince that 
time has figured, or even defcribed it. Some were, perhaps, ignorant ] 
of its having been figured in Clerk’s Plates, which however, could 
not have been the cafe with Linnaeus; but we cannot find that he has 
defcribed it, or referred to Clerk’s figure in any part of his works 3 
Vou. I. I though 
