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 PLATE CCX. 



PHAL^NA LANESTRIS; 



Little Egger Moth. 



Lepidoptera, 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed when 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



Bombyx. 

 Antenna? of the male pectinated, of the female fetaceous. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS. 



Wings ferruginous, firft pair with a white ftripe acrofs each : 

 a white fpot near the bafe, and another in the middle of each. 



PhAL^ena Lanestris : alis reverfis ferrugineis : ftriga alba, anticis 

 pun£to bafique albis. — Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 815. 28. — 

 Fn. Sv. 1 1 05. 



Fab. Eat. Syji. 3. p. I. 429. 68. 

 Wien. Verz. 57. 2. 

 Roef. Inf. I. phal. 2. tab, 62. 



The Caterpillars of the little Egger Moth, feed on black and 

 white thorn, willow, lime-tree, &c. The female depofits a large 

 clufter of eggs in a tuft of hair collected from her body. When 



I 3 thefe 



