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PLATE CCXCIII. 

 F I G. I. 



PHAL^NAULMATA. 



Scarce Elm Moth. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennze taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed when 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNO NTMS. 



. Antennae fetaceous. Wings white, with a double row of pale 

 black fpots acrofs the middle : a ferruginous brown fpot at the bafe, 

 and another at the pofterior margin of the firft pair : a fimilar fpot in 

 the interior margin of the fecond pair alfo. 



Phal^ena Ulmata: feticornis alis albidis : fafciis duabus ferru- 



gineo fufcisi poftica maculari. Fab. Ent. Syji. 3. 



/. 2.^. 176. Sp. 171. 

 Phalaena pantaria pe£linicornis alis albis : fafcia maculari flavicante, 



abdominc luteo nigro pun6lato. Linn. SyJi. Nat. 1, 



863. 218. 



This fpecies bears fome affinity to the Phalena Groffulariata, or 

 Currant Moth. It is very rare, and has been hitherto found only in 

 Yorkfhire. It appears the third week in June. The larva feeds oa 

 the elm : it is green, ftreaked with black, and has a black head ; the 

 pupa blueiih. 



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