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PLATE DLVI. 



PHAL^NA VERTICALIS. 



MOTHER-OF-PEARL MOTH. 

 LEPJDOPTE11A. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas taper from the bafe : wings in general defle&ed when at 

 reft. Fly by night. 



* Sedion Pyralis. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Wings glabrous pale and fomewhat fafciated : beneath waved with 

 fufcous. 



Phal^na Verticalis: alis glabris pallidis fubfafciatis, fubtus 



fufco undatis. Linn. Fn. Suec. 1353. — GmeL 



2522. 335. 

 Phalaena Verticalis. Fabr. Sp. Inf. 2. p. 272. n. ISO.— Mant. Inf. 



2. p. 219. n. 285. 



Geoffr. inf. Par. 2. p. 166. n. 112. 



Abundant in the month of July, when it appears in the winged 

 ilate : the larva, which is of a delicate green colour, feeds on the com- 

 mon nettle : the pupa is diftinguifhed by having each of the three 

 Jaft fegments armed or furnilhed with a tooth-like procefs. 



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