BLA Fh LAY. 
, FIG. I. 
PHALENA INTERROGATIONANA, 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne taper from the bafe, Wings in general contraéted when 
_at reft, Fly by night. : ~ 
POR TRT SS 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 
Superior wings dark red-brown with an iasaluied line peienitity 
the note of interrogation on each. Inferior wings and body pale _ 
brown, 
Is very rare, and has only been hitherto taken in the wilds of Kent, 
and fome other diftant parts of the country 5 our fpecimen was taken | 
in Augutt, 
An infect fo fingularly marked, cannot readily be confounded with — 
any other fpecies, as we do not poflefs one which bears much refem: 
blance to it; the moft. ftriking particular for‘ a-ipecifie diftinétion are 
the two waved lines of white on the fuperior wings, which being con- 
trafted with the brown colour, — ita very unufual Reeke 
Tt js an undefcribed infe&, and. we have called it Phalena Interroga~_ 
tionana, as the white undylated mark, if viewed fideways, cap agers a 
note of i interrogation. 
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