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 PLATE CXLIV. 



PHALiENA VIRIDANA. 



Small Green Oak Moth. 



Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae taper from the bafe. Wings, in general deflexed when 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



** Tortrix. Linn. 

 SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNO NTMS. 



Firft Wings pea green. Second Wings dufky. 



Phaltcna viridana. Pyralis. Alis rhombeis, anticisviridibus imma- 

 culatis. — Fabricius. Syji. Ent. 656. 4. — Linn. 

 Syji. Nat. 2. 875. 266. 



Phalana feticornis fpirilinguis, humeris latis, antennisflavefcentibus, 

 alis dilute fufcis. — Geof. Inf. 2. 171. 123. 

 Reaum. Inf. 2. tab. 18. fg. 6. 7. 

 Roef. Inf. I. fhal. 4. tab. I. 

 Frifch. Inf. 3. tab. 8. 



Early in July we find this fpecles flying about the narrow paths 

 and lanes in woods where Oaks are plenty. It is obferved to fhelter 

 itfelf in the day time, generally among fuch trees as have the foliage 



thick 



