8 PLATE CCCXXVII. 



better known by that name than any other we could adopt, it is 

 thought moll advifable to retain it. 



This Moth is uncommonly fcarcc in Great Britain. The larva 

 is of a pale or greenifh white colour wiih three longitudinal ftripes 

 of brown and a few black bars acrofs. It feeds on the Willow and 

 Alder. Four of thofe larvas were taken in the wood of Darent, 

 1793 j ^'^^ o"£ of them was reared to the winged ftate. 



F I G. II. 



PHALiENA ALNI. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS. 



Thorax crefled. Anterior wings brown with two broad fpaces of 

 grey, divided by a tranfverfe dark bar, and a kidney-lhaped fpot in the 

 middle. Polterior wings v/hitif}) with a marginal row of brown 

 fpots, pale brown at the apex. 



Phal^ena Aj.ni : criflaia alls deflcxis fnllginofis ; greis duabus 



cinerafcentibus priore p'/ndlo marginali nigro. 



Linn. SyJ}. Nat. 2. 845. l-^J^.—Fub. Ent. Syji. 



r. Z-P' 2.//5. 89. 

 Ho£lua Degener. Wien. Verz. 70. \.-^Degecr. Inf. 1. tab. 1 1. 



fig. 25. 28. 



One of t|"ie rare Englifli fjoecies of Phal^nas known air.ongft col- 

 leftors by the general nrme of Portland Moths, having been firll 

 difcoverv-d and introduced to notice as natives of this country by the 



late Putchefs Dovvager of Portland. 



FIG. 



