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the Caterpillar in Auguft, the Fly in September. The wild orach 

 and common dock are its favourite food. 



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F I G. II. II. 



PHAL.'ENA UMBRATICA. 



Shark Moth. 

 SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



s r N o N r M s. 



Thorax crefted. Wings deflexed, lanceolated, greyifti, ftriated 

 longitudinally with pale black. A faint reddilh dafh in the middle, 

 marked with two black fpots. 



PHALi?;NA Umbratica: criftata alls deflexis ftriatis lanceolatis 

 canis : macula central! ferrugin'ea ; punftis duobus 

 nigris. Linn. Syji. Nat. 849. 150. Fn. Sv. 1184. — 

 Fab. Ent. SyJi. T. 3. p. 122. 368. 



No£lua lucifuga. /F/>«. Ferz. 312. 11 /" 



Ropf. Inf. I . phal. 2. tab. 25. 



The larva of Phalacna Umbratica Is fometimes of a dirty brown, 

 with fpots of clay colour ; it feeds on the fow thiftle ; changes into 

 the Chryfalis ftate in May, and the Flies appear in June, 



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