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FHALÆNA CŒRULEOCEPHALA.Figure ©f Eight Moth.

TEPIDOPTERA.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

Antennae taper from the base. Wings in general deflexed whentzt rest. Fly by night.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Antennae feathered. Superior wings brown, marbled with blueish,green; the resemblance of a double figure of eight on each. InferiorWings lighter with a brownish scallopped margin.

Phalæna Cccruleocephala elinguis cristata, alls deflexisgriseis, stigmatibus albidis coadunatis.— Linn. Syji.Nat. 2. 826. 59,— Fn. Sv. 1117.

PtJALÆNA pectinicornis elinguis, alis. deflexis fuscis, macula du-plici alboflavescente, geminata. Geoff. Inf. 2.122. 27*Raj, Inf. 163. 17.

Gced. Iff. 1. tab. 61,

Reaum. Inf. r. tab. r8. fig. 6. 9.

Roes Inf. 1. phal. 2. tab. 16.

Frifch. Inf 10. tab, 3. fig. 4.

Merian. Europ . tab. 9.

Albin. Inf. tab. 13. fig. 17.

IVilks Pap. 6. tab. 1. a 12.

Harts. Aurel. pi, 30. a. b. C. d.

Fab. Spec. Inf. 2. 184. 72.

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