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PHALENA EXOLETA. 
Sworp Grass MorTH. 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antennz taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed when at 
seft. Fly by night. | 
Noétua. 
Antennz in both fexes, like a briftle. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYrMS. 
Thorax crefted. Wings lance-fhaped, varied with grey and 
brown, a kidney-fhaped fpot in the middle: four white fj pots on the 
anterior margin. 
PHALaNA Exoveta: criftata, alis lanceolatis convolutis fufco 
cinereoque nebulofis, punctis quatuor marginalibus 
. albis. Fab. Syft. Ent. 617. 116.—Spec. Inf. 2. 239. 
144. 
The beautiful Caterpillar of this Moth is found on Sword Grafs 
in Auguft, ‘Fhough its trivial name implies that it is peculiar to 
this 
