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PHAL^NA POPULI. 

 December Moth. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



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

 reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS. 



Brown : an irregular pale ftreak acrofs the anterior pair, and a 

 fmaller one near the bafe. A fingle pale ftreak acrofs the pofterior 

 pair. 



Phal^na Populi : fufca antice pallida, alis reverfis fufcefcen- 

 tibus : ftriga fefquialtera repanda albida. Linn* Syjl* 

 Nat. 2. 818. 34. — Fn. Sv. 11 01. 

 — Fab. Ent. Syjl. T. 3. p. 2. p. 429. fp. 70. 

 Wien. Verz,. 58. 9. 

 Roef. Inf. I. phal. 2. tab. 60. 



We feldom meet with this interefting fpecies, for it is found both 

 in the larva and perfect ftate in the feafon, when few collectors are 

 difpofed to feek for it. It feeds on the white-thorn, becomes a pupa 

 in November, and the Moth appears in December as its trivial 

 Englifh name implies. 



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