PLATE CLXVIII. 



JPHALiENA SATELLITIA. 



Satellite Moth. 



Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



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

 reft. Fly by night. 



Noftua. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS, 



Firft wings, exterior margin indented : reddifh brown with feveral 

 dark ftreaks acrofs : in the center a yellow fpot between two fmaller 

 white fpots. Second wings greyifh. 



Phaljena Satellitia : criftata alis deflexis dentatis brunneis: 



anticis pun6lo flavo inter pundlula duo 

 alba. Fab. Spec. Inf. 2. 230. 104. Lin. 



Syji. Nat. 2. 855. 176. 

 Roef. Inf. 3. tab. 50. 



The caterpillar 'of this moth feeds on whitethorn, currant and 

 goofeberry-trces, &c. The chryfalis or pupa is enclofed in a flrong 

 web of a greyifti colour; it is of a dark brown colour. The cater- 

 pillar is found in June. In July or Auguft, the moth comes forth. 



The upper wings of this moth have a very ftriking chara6lerillic ; 

 that is, the yellowifh lunar mark within two fmall fpots: fron^ this 

 charader it has been aptly named Satelliti j and in Englifti, the Sa- 

 tellite Moth. 



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