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PLATE CCCX 



PHALiENA ACERIS. 



Sycamore Moth. 



Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antenna taper from the bafe. Wings in general defiexed wheti 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND »^ 



STNONTMS, 



Thorax crefted. Wings deflexed, grey, undulated with black, 

 and a black dagger-like mark at the bafe of the anterior pair. 



Phal-^.NA ACERis: criftata alis deflexis canis nigro undatis, ab- 

 domine fubtus bafi brunneo. Linrj. Syjl. Nat, 2. 

 846. 137. — Fn. Sv. 1 1 79. — Fad. EnL SyJi.T. 2^ 

 p. 2. p. 107.^. 322. 

 W'llh pap. 32. tah. 2. c. 6. 

 Reaum. Inf. I. tab. 34. fg. II. 

 Frifch. Inf. I . tab. 5. 



The larva of this fpecies feeds on the Sycamore, it becomes a 

 pupa late in Auguft, and appears in the winged ftate in June. 



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