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PHALENA GRAMINIS, 
ANTLER) MOTH. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. — 
Anteme tapering from the bafe: wings in general deflected when 
at reft. Fly by night. 
Bombyt. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Wings brown, with a trifurcated whitifh line, and dot. 
PHALENA GRAMINIS: alis grifeis: linea trifurca punCtoque albidis. 
Linn. Fn. Suec. 1140.—Act. Stockh. 1742. p. 40. 
t. 2 
Fab. Spec. Inf. 2. p. 204. n. 148. 
Syfi. Ent. 2. 586. 106. 
Frifch inf. 10. €. 21. 
Noétua tricuspis Hiib. Schmet. 3. t. 60. fig. I. 
This infe&t obtained the name of “ Aniler Moth” among the old 
collectors, in allufion to the trifurcated whitith mark on the anterior 
wings, which bears fome refemblance to the antler of a ftag. In this 
country the fpecies is very uncommon; in fome other parts of Eu- 
rope onthe contrary it is exceedingly abundant, and as it feeds on 
grafs 
