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PLATE CCCXXXIV. 



PHALiENA FLAVOCINCTA. 

 Great Ranunculus Moth. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed when 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS. 



Thorax cretled. Wings deflexed : margins dentated. Firfl pair 

 greyifli brown, obfcurely clouded and variegated with fmall orange- 

 yellow fpots. 



Phal.^na Flavocincta : criftata alis deflexis dentatis fufco 

 einereoque variis fulvo pundlatisi Fab. Ent. Syft, 



T,Z' P''2- p. iiA-' fp' 334. 

 Nodlua flavocinda. Wien. Verz. 72. 2. 



Roef. Inf. I. phal. 1. tab. 54. 55. 



The larva is fuppofed to feed on the black Cherry and Sloe; 

 on the latter of which we once found it. Its Englifh name implies 

 that it feeds alfo on fome plant of the Ranunculus genus. In the 

 winged ftate it is fometimes met with in gardens. 



Another Infe<3: analagous to this fpecies has been named the fmall 

 Ranunculus Moth. 



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