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PLATE CXXIX.

FIG , I, II, III.

PHALÆNA HASTATA.

Argent and Sabie Moth.

LEPIDOPTERA .

GENERIC CHARACTER.

Antennas taper from the base. Wings in general contracted whenat rest. Fly by night.

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SPECIFIC CHARACTER

AND

sr NO NTM s.

White, beautifully marked and spotted with black.

Phalæna Hastata : seticornis, alis omnibus nigris albo macd-,

latis, fasti is duabus albis nigro punctatishastata dentatis. Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 870,254. Fn Sv. 1276.

Phalæna antennis filiformibus; alis latis albis fasciis undulatis ma-

culifque hastatis nigris. Degeer. Inf. Vers.Germ. 2. I. 334. 7. tab. 8. fig. 20,

Clerk. phal. tab. I. fig. 9.

Kleman Inf. 1. tab. 44.

The Argent and Sable Moth is scarce in the Fly state : though itsyoung caterpillars are not uncommon in some parts of Kent; we

have

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