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PHALAENA FIMBRIA, 
BROAD-BORDERED YELLOW UNDERWING MoTH, 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Anteane taper from the bafe : wings in general defle&ted when at 
yell, Fly by night. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS, 
Noctua. 
Thorax crefted: anterior wings clay colour, marked with obfcure 
bands or ftreaks: pofterior pair reddifh orange, with a broad bar of 
black. 
PHALANA Fimspia: criftatata alis planis grifeo fafciatis; pofticis 
helvolis: macula lineari atra. Linn. Sy/t. Nat. 2. 
842. 123.—Fab. Ent. Sy/t. T. 3. p. 2. 59. 165. 
Wien. Verz. 87. 18. 
Schreb. Inf. fig. 9. 
This rare Infeét is diftinguifhed from two very common fpecies 
that are allied to it, by the broad border of black on the under wings, 
as its trivial name implies. In the larva ftate, it is one of that kind 
colleftors denominate under-ground feeders: fubfifting chiefly on 
the roots of grafs, and never coming out of the ground till the 
evening,.for which reafon it is very rarely taken. 
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