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PHAL i ENA PLACENTIA.
W H IT E -D O T T E D A M E R IC A N T IG E R M O T H .
R U B U S P R U T l C O S U S . L I N N . ?
A M E R I C A N B L A C K - B E R R Y .
P h . Bombyx elinguis, alis defle&is alris: maculis tribus albis; pofticis rubris: maculis
margineque nigris.
F e e d s on the Black-Berry, Corn, Peas, and many other plants. I t fpun itfelf up
on th e 17th o f April, and came o u t May 1 1 th. This is not a common Ipecies.
Mr. Drury in his 2d Volume, 1. 11, f . 4. has publiihed a Phalana by the name offigurata,
which is the connecting link between that in the laft plate and this now before us. If his
Ihould ever be admitted into a fyftematic work, the name muft be changed on account of its
termination, which belongs to the Geometra feticomes.
The Rubus in the figure is to us very obfcure, and may perhaps be fome nondefcript fpe-
cies. We cannot determine it for want of fpecimens, which, however ill preferved, are more
ufeful than the beft drawing.
