^4 PLATE CCCXLIX. 



F I G. n. 



PHALiENA URTICATA. 

 SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS. 



Antenna; like a briflle. Wings white, with bands of brown 

 fpots. Thorax and tail yellow. 



Phal^NA Urtica : feticornis alis albis fufco fafciato-maculatis, 

 thorace anoque flavis. Linn. Sy^. Nat. 2. 873. 

 272. 



Fa/?. Ent. Syji. T. 3. p. 2. p. 2og. fp. 299. 

 Roef. Inf. i.phal. 4. tab. 14. 

 Degeer. Inf. I. tab. 28. fg. 18. 19. 

 Geoffn. Inf. 2. 135. 



The larva conceals Itfelf in a kind of cylinder, which it forms by 

 rolling up the edges of the nettle leaves on which it feeds. It is 

 wdiitifh, with a dark dorfal line, head black, and two fpots of the 

 fame colour on the fegment next the head. 



FIG. 



