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PLATE CCXIX. 



PHALiENA PRODROMARIA. 



Oak-beauty Moth. 

 Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas fetaceous. Wings in general deflexed, when at reft. 

 F3y by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



s r N o N r M s. 



Antennas feathered. Wings white, fpeckled with numerous black 

 fpots. Two irregular, and nearly tranfverfe bars of dark brown, 

 on the upper wings. 



Pkal^NA Prodromaria, pe£linicornis alis albis nigro pundlatis • 

 fafciis duabus latis fufcis. Fab. Ent. Syjl. T. 3. p. i. 

 159. 105. 



Phalasna Prodromaria. JVien. Vcrz.. 99. i. 



The larva of this Moth, like others of the geometra, raifes itfelf 

 when walking, into the form of an arch or loop : it is of an ob- 

 fcure grey and brown colour, faintly mottled : the head is red. 

 This larva is feldom taken, and when taken, is reared to the fly 

 ftate with the utmoft difficulty. It feems a local fpecies j for we 



have 



