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PLATE CCLXII. 



FIG. I. L 



PHAL^NA ATRIPLICIS. 



Wild arrach Moth. ' 



Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas taper from the bafe, wings in general deflexed when at 

 reft. Fly by night, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



s r N o N r M s. 



Thorax crefted, anterior wings, brown, clouded and marked with 

 undulated ftreaks, and a two-cleft or forked yellow mark in the 

 middle. 



Phal^na Atriplicis, criftata alis deflexis: anticis fufco nebu- 

 lofis; litura media flava bifida. Lin. Syji. Nat.- 7,^ 

 854. 173. Fab. Ent. Syji. T. 3./. 95. fp. 282. 

 Roef. Ivf. i.phal. 2. tab. 31, 



This fpecies is noticed by Harris and BerkenhoUt, as a native of 

 Great Britain, under the trivial name of PFild arrach Moth ; we have 

 ever confidered it a local fpecies. It is found in Cambridgefliire, 



C 3 the 



