Se ae 
ee tes COIL, 
PHALANA PAR AMID EA, 
Copper-UNDERWING Morn. 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
GHNERIC CHARACTER. 
Antennz taper from the bafe: wings in general defleéted when at 
reft. Fly by night. 
SPECI IC CHARACTER 
| ‘ AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Anterior wings dark brown, with three waved repandate fripes of 
yellowifh: pofterior pair coppery ferruginous. 
PHALENA PyRAMIDEA. WNoeéua criftata, alis fufcis, flrigis tribus 
undatis tlavefcentibus repandis, pofticis ferrugineis. 
Linn. Syft. Nat. 2. 856. 181.—Fab. Spec. Lnf. 
2.232. 119.—Ent. Syft. [.3. p. 2. 98. 290. 
Phalena feticornis fpirilinguis, alis deflexis, fupertoribus fulcis, lineis 
a tranfverfis undulatis nigris, inferioribus ferrugineis. 
Gey, Inf. 2.160. 99. 
Phalena media, alis longis anguftis, exterioribus linealis et areolis 
» nigris, albis atro rubentibus tranfverfis pulcre depittis, 
uaterioribus obf{cure rubris. aj. Inf. 159. 9. 
‘The fingular pyramidal protuberance on the poflerior part of the 
Caterpifiar has furnifhed an excellent trivial name for this fpecies. 
It is found on the Oak, Sallow, aad Blackthorn in May; changes 
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