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PLATE CXXIV.

PHALÆNA ANOSTOMOSIS.

Scarce Chocolate-tif Moth .

IEPIDOPTERA.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

■Antennas taper from the base. Wings in general deflexed whenI test. Fly by night.

B O M BY X.

Antennas feathered.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

first wings greyish, with three tranverfe stripes of dull white.

1 ‘^Pex fine chocolate colour. Second wings and body pale brown.

^aeæna Anostomosjs. B. alls deflexis grifeis, strigis tribus

albidis fubanastomofantibus, tho-race ferruginato. Fab. Spec. Ins. 2.189. 85.

Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 824. 53.

Fn. Sv. 1124.

Goed. Inf. 1. tab. 33.

A very rare species of Phalæna. In the perfect state it is seldom^ with; and in the Caterpillar state few Collectors are acquaintedj ' V * t h its haunts. It feeds on the sallow, willow, and poplar, andj be found sometimes by stripping off the bark of those trees,j H Our