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PLATE CLXXIX. 



PHAL.ENA OO. 

 Heart Moth. 



Lepidoptera, 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



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

 reft. Fly by night. 



NOCTUA. 



Antennas like a briftle. 

 SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNO NTMS. 



Wings bufF, ftreaked, and marked with red-brown : and a double o 

 in the middle of upper wings. 



NoCTUA Oo: criftata alis deflexis cinerafcentlbus ferrugineo ftri- 

 gofis oonotatis. Lin, Syji. Nat. 2. 832. 81. — Fn, Sv, 



1139- 



Fak SyJi. Ent. t. Z' P- ^' ^47. 



Wien. Verz. 87. I. 



Roef. Inf. I. PhaL 2. tah. 63. 



This Moth is far from^ common. It is found on the oak, in the 

 Caterpillar ftate, late in the fummer ; changes to chryfalis in the firft 



week 



