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PLATE CCVIII. 



PHALINA FIMBRIA. 



Broad-bordered yellow-underwing Moth, 



LePidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



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

 reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



NoCTUA. 



Thorax crefted. Firfl wings elay-colour, marked with obfcure 

 bands or ftreaks. Second wings reddifh orange, with a broad bar of 

 black. 



Phal^na Fimbria: criftatata alis planls grifeo fafciatis; pofticis 

 helvolis: macula lineari atra. Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 

 842. 123.— Fab. Ent. Syji. T. $p. 2. 59. 165. 

 Wien. Verz. 87. 18. 

 Schreb. Inf. fig. 9. 



This rare Infe£l is diftinguiihed from two 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 l~rva 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, 



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