26 PLATE CCCLXIX. 



FIG. II. II. 

 PHALiENA BETULANA. 



ALDER TORTRIX-MOTH. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Tort it ix Betulana: anterior wings ochraceous, with an oblique, 

 fubfufcous band acrofs the middle, and two black 

 dots : one central and touching the band. 



Phal^na Betulana. Hubn. Beitr. 



This is one of the larger fpecies of the Tortrix tribe ; the co- 

 lour ochraceous, fometinies livid, at others tinged with reddiih, and 

 gloffy. It may be readily diilinguiihed by the oblique dark band 

 acrofs the middle of the wing, to which one of the black fpots is 

 connected ; the other dot is fmaller, and placed nearer the pofterior end 

 of the wing. There is alfo a ferruginous dafh contiguous, that ex- 

 tends to the outer margin of the wins?. 



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