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 PLATE CCX. 



PHAL^NA LANESTRIS. 



Little Egger Moth. 



Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antenna taper from the bafe : wings in general defined when 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



Bombyx. 

 Antennae of the male pe&inated, of the female fetaceous. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Wings ferruginous : firft pair with a white ftripe : a fpot of the 

 lame near the bafe, aad another in the middle. 



PhaLjENaLanestris: alisreverfis ferrugineis: ftriga alba, anticis 

 punfto bafique albis.— Linn. Syjl. Nat. 2. 815. 28.t- 

 Fn. Sv. 1105. 



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

 Wien. Verzi 57. 2. 

 RoeJ. Inf. 1. 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 

 duller of eggs in 3 tuft of hair collected from her body. When 



thefe 



