ce Gr: Nin 
Pee AT EF CxO 
Poe AL EN AP Soe 
Grey Dascer-Morn. 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antennz taper from the bafe. Wings, in general defiexed when 
at reft. Fly by night. 
Noé@tua, Antennz fetaceous. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONTMS. 
Firft wings and body grey; on the former three or four black 
marks, in the form of a dagger*. Second wings pale brown, with 
a flightly fcalloped margin. 
PHavtana Pst: criftata, alis deflexis cinereis, anticis lineola bafeos 
characteribufque nigris. Syf. Ent. 614. 104.—~ 
Fab. Spee. Inf. 2. 235. 129. 
Linn. Syft. Nat. 2. 846. 135. 
Alb, Inf. tab. 26. 
The Caterpillars of the Grey Dagger-Moth is frequently found 
en fruit trees; particularly on the cherry: it feeds alfo on the 
willow and poplar, and on almoft all plants indifcriminately when 
confined in the breeding cage. It is not an uncommen Infe&: the 
Caterpillars change in September, remain in the chryfalis flate during 
Winter, and the Moth appears late in May, or early in June. 
* Or like the Greek ()) Pj; from which it receives its {pecific name. 
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