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PHALENA STRAMINEA 
LeEPIpOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Afitenne taper from the bafe, Wings, in general, contratted - 
when at reft. Fly by night. 
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SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne and tongue deep yellow. Head and thorax coyered with 
‘Jong hairs; which, with the fuperior wings, are pale yellow, or bright 
clay colour; in the middle of the fuperior wing is a kidney-fhaped fpot 
of dull grey, énclofed by a dark reddith brown line, which is united 
to the anterior margin by another {pot of the fame colour, Near t e€ 
exterior margin is a broad obfolete band of pale brown, but where 
it touches the anterior margin it is darker; within this band are nine 
white {pots, or points, and between the band and exterior margin of 
the wing, on the lower edge, is a bright black point; there are feveral 
other reddifh brown points feattered upon the upper wing, near the 
bafe. The inferior wings are of a yellowifh-white, with a fhade, of 
purple, a dark {pot on the middle, anda pale black, broad border, 
with a white fringe. 
S eURIERERe anon ns 
This elegant fpecies of the Nodtva divifion of Moths, appears to 
be not only a nondefcript, but altogether unknown before; even to _ 
the beft practical ‘entymologifts : That an infect of fuch magnitude 
fhould have been unnaticed by Linnegus, or Fabricius, is not very 
fingular, as feveral ngndeferipts of a fimilar, and many of an inferior, 
Vou. MU. K fas 
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