6g." 4 
PLATE CCVIII. 
PHALENA FIMBRIA, 
BrRoAD-BORDERED YELLOW-UNDERWING Mor#, 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antennz taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed when at 
reft. Fly by night. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Nocruva. 
Thorax crefted. Firft wings clay-colour, marked with ob{cure 
bands or ftreaks. Second wings reddifh orange, witha broad bar of 
black. 
Poacana Frmprta: criftatata alis plants grifeo fafciatis; pofticis 
helvolis: macula lineari atra. Linn. Sy/?. Nat. 2. 
842. 123.—Fab. Ents Syft. T. 3. p. 2. 59 165. 
Wien. Verz. 87. 18. 
Schreb. Inf. fig. 9. 
This rare Infc& is diftinguithed from ‘wo very common fpecies 
that are allied to it, by the broad border of black on the under 
wings, as its trivial name implies. In the lerva ftate, it is one of that 
kind collectors denominate under-ground feeders: fubfifting chiefly 
on the roots of grafs, and never coming out of the ground till the 
evening, for which reafon it is very rarely taken. 
I The 
