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PLATE CCCXXXVIIL 



FIG. I, 



PHAL^NA CUCULLA. 

 Maple Prominent Moth. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas taper ffom the bafe. Wings in general tleflexed when 

 at reft. Fly by Night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Tongue fpiral. Thorax crefted. Wings deflexed, margin denti- 

 culated, yellow brown clouded with ferruginous and marked ob- 

 liquely with feveral interrupted parallel and interwoven waved ftreaks. 

 A broad white band next the exterior margin. 



Phal^na Cuculla : fpirilinguis, criftata alis deflexis denticu- 

 latis ochraceis maculis ferrugineis, fafciaque 

 marginali albida ftriis intertexta fufcis. Linn. 

 Syji. Nat. 8i. 



This fpecies is uncommonly rare, and has, we believe, not been 

 figured by any author, wnXtkfig. i. tab. ']l* of Efper is intended foi; 

 the fame infect.— It feeds on the maple. 



FIG. 



