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HATE LXXVL

PHALÆNA FUNALIS.

Festoon Mot HiLepidoptera.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

Antennas taper from the base; Wings, when at reft, generallyContracted. Fly by night.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER i

Upper wings orange, rather inclining to brown ; with a black linenearly of a triangular form on each; when the wings are expandedthe lines resemble a festoon; Under wings orange, clouded andfrosted with black; margin pale.

We are happy to present our Subscribers with the figure of a Mothwhich is scarcely known among the English Collectors, and we mayventure to assert on the best authority has not a place in any cabinetof Insects in this metropolis, except that of the Author j indeed theonly person who appears to have been so fortunate as to meet with itexcept himself, is Mr. Lewin, who formerly resided at Dartford ; heconsidered it as such an invaluable rarity, that had not a figure of itbeen discovered in Roejel , it would no doubt have been published inthe Transactions of the Linnæan Society ; it must, however, be ob-served, that the Insect Roesel has figured is a foreign specimen.

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