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 PLATE CCLVIL 



PHALiENA VERBASCI. 



Water Betony Moth. 



Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas taper from the bafe. Wings in general reflexed when 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



stnontms. 



Thorax crefted. Wings deflexed, margins deeply ferrated. A 

 dark brown ftreak along the pofterior edge of the firft wings. 



Phal.5:na Verbasci : criftata alis deflexis dentate erofis: margine 

 laterali fufco immaculate. Lhm. Syji. Nat. 2. 850. 

 Fn. Sv. 118. 



Fab. Ent. SyJi. Nai, T. 3. p. 2. l2o. Sp, 363. 

 iVien. l^erz. 73. 8. 

 Raj. Inf. 168. 25. 

 Geoffr. Inf. 1. 158. 96. 

 Sul%. H'lji. Inf. tab. 22. fig. 7. 

 Reamn. Inf. 1. tab. 43. fig. 9. ir = 

 Fnfch. Inf. 6. tab. 9. 

 Merian. Europ. 3. tab. 29. 



The Water Betony ^/'loth is a very abundant fpecles ; the larva 

 feeds on the Moth Midlien, or Water Betony plant, as its name 

 implies. It is in the larva (late in July, becomes a pjipa, and the 

 fly is produced in April. 



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