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FIG III. 



PHALiENA DIPSACEA. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS. 



Thorax fmooth. Anterior wings pale clay colour, witli a broad 

 brown ramofe bar acrofs. Pofterior pair black, with an irregular 

 pale oblique bar, and double fpot of the fame near the pofterior 

 margin. 



Phal.^na Dipsacea: lasvis alis deflexis pallidis : fufcia lata 

 fufcn, pofticis albo nigroque variis. Lin. S)J}. 

 Nat. 2. 856. l85.-~F^^. Ent. S)Ji. T. 3. p, 2. 



Wien. verz. 89. 3. 



Hitherto confidered as a fcarce or at Icart: very local fpecies. 

 Dr. Latham found it in great abundance in a clover field near Dart- 

 ford, Kent. The larva is defcribed ; it is red with broken or inter- 

 rupted white lines and a cinereous head. It feeds on the Centaurea, 

 Plantain and Tragopogon. 



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