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PLATE CXXXIV.

PHALÆNA PLANTAGINIS.

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Small Tiger.

Lepidoptera,

GENERIC CHARACTER.

Antennæ taper from the base. Wings in general deflexed whenat rest. Fly by night.

Bombyx antennæ of the male pectinated or feathered.

SPECIEIC CHARACTER.

First Wings yellow, second Wings orange colour; both clouded•with black. Body orange and black.

Phalæna Plantaginis elinguis. alls deflexis atris, rivulis fiavis,

inferioribus rubro maculatis. Linn. Syft.Nat. 2. 820. 42.— Fn. Sv. 1132.

Phalæna pectinicornis elinguis, alis deflexis, fuperioribus fufcis,

maculis Iuteis, inferioribus rubris, ma.culis quatuor nigris. Geof. Inf. 2.109. 10.

Phalæna Alpicola. Scop. cam. 507.

Wilk. pap. 24. tab. 3. a. 5.

Rocs. Inf. 4. tab. 24-Fal.Jpec. Inf. 2. 196. 115.

L’Ecaille brune. Geofr.

Der Wegerichfpinner. Die fpanifche Fahne. Die befchleiertcBarenphalene. Pans. Fauz. Ins. Germ.

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