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PLATE CCXXI. 



PHALiE.NA MYRTILLI. 



Scarce Broad Border Yellow Underwing Moth. 



Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed wlien 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



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STNONTMS. 



Thorax crefted. Wings deflexed, brown, fpotted with white. 

 Anterior wings yellow, with a deep black border. 



Phal^na Myrtilli criftata alis deflexis ferrugineis albo maculatis: 

 pofticis luteis, fafcia lata fubmarginali nigra, Lin, 

 Syji. Kat. — Fab. Ent. Syji, T. 3. p. 2. 126. 379. 



A fmall Infedt, but of fingular beauty ; it feeds on the whortle 

 berry and floe. 



This fpecies has been taken by Mr. Crow, of Faverfliam. The 

 only fpecimen we ever met with, was found in the caterpillar ftatCj, 

 in Kent, in the month of May. The Fly came forth in June. 



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