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PLATE CCCVII. 



PHAL^NA POPULI. 

 December Moth. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



AntennjE taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed when at 

 reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SrNONTMS. 



Brown : an irregular pale ftreak acrofs the anterior pair, and a 

 fmaller one near the bafe. A fingle pale ftreak acrofs the pofterior 

 pair. 



PHALiENA PopuLi : fufca antice pallida, alis reverfis fufcefcen- 

 tibus : ftriga fefquialtera repanda albida. Linn. Syji. 

 Nat. 1. 8 1 8. 34. — Fn. Sv. 11 01. 

 — Fai. Ent. SyJi. T*. 3. /. 2. p. 4-2g./p. 70. 

 JVien. Verz. 58. 9. 

 Roef. Inf. I. phal. 2. tab. 60. 



We feldom meet with this interefting fpecies, for it is found botu 

 in the larva and perfedl ftate in the feafon, when few collecElors are 

 difpofedtofeek for it. It feeds on the white-thorn, becomes a pupa 

 in November, and the Moth appears in December as its trivial 

 Englifh nsme implies. 



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