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p h a L yE N A m i n e u s .
GENERIC CHARACTER.
A n ten n s gradually tapering from the bafe; tongue fpiral: wings in general defleded when at reft.
Fly by night.
S P E C IF IC CHARACTER.
Cyaneous: wings orange, with blue fpots.
B o m b y x M i n e u s : c y a n e a a lis c o n c o lo r ib u s a u r a n ti is m a c u l i s c y a iie is .
Cramer has given the figure o f a fmall fpecimen o f this fine Phdasna under the trivial name o f Mineus.
This is evidently of the male; the antenna of which are not however very corredly expreffed. Both fexes
o f this rare infed are reprefented in the annexed plate, the drawings of which were taken from fpecimens
met with in Bengal by Mr. Fichtel of Vienna. The originals are a t this time in the cabinet o f the Emperor
o f Germany.
P H A L Æ N A S C A . L A R I S .
S P E C IF IC CHARACTER.
Snowy white, with numerous abbreviated black ftreaks, and a longitudinal fulvous ftria.
Cossus ScALARis : niveus ftrigis numerofis abbreviatis nigris ftriaque longitudinali fulva. F a l. Ent. Syft.
T. 3 . p . 2. p. 5. Sp. 5 .-U N F IG U R E D .
H e p i a l u s S c a l a r i s . Mani. In f.2 . J 3 5 . J.
Defcribed by Fabricius, from a fpecimen in the cabinet o f M r. Monfon, as a native o f China. The fpe-
cimen reprefented in the annexed plate was brought from Bengal, and is as well as the preceding at this
time in the cabinet o f the Emperor of Germany.
p h a l y E N A s a n g u i n o l e n t a .
S P E C IF IC CHARACTER.
Wings incumbent fuowy, coftal edge of the anterior pair fanguineous: pofterior pair fpotted with black.
B o m b y x S a n g u in o l e n t a : alis incumbentibus niveis: anticis cofta fanguinea, pofticis maculis atris.
Fah. Em. Syft. T . 3. p . \ . p . 4J3. Sp. 206.
This infed is rare: our fpecimen was received from Bombay.