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PLATE CCCLIX. 



PHAL^NA TRITOPHUS, 

 Aspen Prominent Moth. 



GENERIC CHARACTER 



Antennas taper from the bafe : wings in general deflefted whea 

 at red. Fly by Night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Wings deflected, with a prominent tuft or tooth on the pofterior 

 margin ; colour brown, clouded, with a ferruginous lunar mark 

 furrounded by a white ring in the middle. 



Phal/ENA Tritophus: aiis deflexis dorfo dentatis fufco nebu- 

 lofis : lunula media ferruginea alba cin&a. Fab, 

 Eni. Syft. T. 3. p. l.p.tef.fp. 108. 



The larva of this fine Infefl is green, with a brown head, obtufe 

 tail, and three elevations or gibbofities on the back. It feeds on the 

 Populo tremulo, from whence we have deduced its Engliih name of 

 Afpen Prominent Moth. 



Phalzena tritophus is extremely fcarce in this country. 



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