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PLATE CCCLIX. 



PHAL.ENA TRITOPHUS, 

 Aspen Prominent Moth. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed when 

 at reft. Fly by Night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Wings deflexed, a prominent tuft or tooth on the pofterior mar- 

 gin, brown, clouded; in the middle, a white ring, enclofing a ferru- 

 ginous lunar mark. 



Phal^na Tritophus : alis deflexis dorfo dentatis fufco nebu- 

 lofis : lunula media ferruginea alba cin6la. Fah. 

 Ent. Syjl. T. 3.^. I. p. 448. fp. 108. 



The larva of this fine Infedl is green, with a brown head, obtufe 

 tail, and three elevations or gibbofities on the back. It feeds on the 

 Populo tremuloy from whence we have deduced its Englilh name of 

 Afpen Prominent Moth. 



Phalasna tjitophus is extremely fcarce in this country. 



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