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PLATE GXCIII.

PHALÆNA PYRAMIDEA.Copper-Underwing Moth.Lepidoptera.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

Antennae taper from the base : wings in general deflected when at,e ft. fly by night.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER

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Anterior wings dark brown, with three waved rep an date stripes of^Wifli; posterior pair coppery ferruginous.

^Alæn a Pyramidea. Noclua cristata, alis fuscis, strigis tribusundatis flavescentibus repandis, posticts ferrugineis.Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 856. 181.— Fab. Spec. Inf.p 2. 232. 119 ,—Ent. Syst. I. 3. p. 2. 98. 290.

a l<£na seticornis spirilinguis, alis deflexis, superioribus fuscis, linerstransversts undulatis nigris, inferioribus ferrugineis.

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Geoff. Inf. 2. 160. 99.

Aœtia media, alis longis angustis, exteriors!)us linealis et areolisnigris, albis atro rubentibys tranfveri’is pulcre depictis,interioribus obscure rubris. Raj, InJ'. 15 9. 9.

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singular pyramidal protuberance on the posterior part of the'^pillar ha S furnished an excellent trivial name for this i'pcties.ls found on the Oak, Sallow, and Blackthorn in May ; changes

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