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PHAL£NA vidua. 



BL&CK-ONDBRYnNa MOTH, 



QUERCUS rilELLQS. LINK 



VIILOW OAK, 



Hi, AVftw fpirilingiiti criftata, alii dcntaii* einerco-rttbulolUt pofticii fupra rj*gri* nmrginc 



dcmlculiio albo T 



Feed* on the Willow-leaved and other Oak*. It fnun on the loth of May, and 

 came out on (he iCth of June* Tbi* i* not a very common fpecies. though the fly 

 may fomctimc* be met will* on 0m bodic* of large oaks, 



Great affinity i> ob&mbk between ihi* infefl and the PMrUmi JVj™ of Europe, but the 

 Utter U fomewhat larger, the Kind wing* more remark aWr and tlngulirly toothed, with a 

 broad bialib ilripc acrofo their dift— AWfeW /^„ f f Fabriciu*. &/*w. r»rW. /: 5, fts, j» 

 allied to both. >j welt an lm A', Jwm/rir.—Thc (arae author Ita* a Aim^ ttaw, which if 

 no other than Aataw Bmktam of Linrurw, a nainc we fee no reafon for changing; and ^ 

 tiut of /Uw u peculiariy applicable to Our* conndtrin s the analogy of other fpecica, wc 

 nuke no Temple to take it. 





