ae gore 
Pebied E) CCLYVii. 
PHALANA VERBASC1. 
WaTER BETony Moru. 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antennz taper from the bafe : wings in general deflected when at 
reft. Fly by night. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Thorax crefted: wings defle€ted and deeply ferrated at the margins: 
pofterior edge of the firft wings with a dark brown ftreak. 
PHALAZNA VERBASCI: criftata alis deflexis dentato erofis: margine 
laterali fufco immaculato. Linn. Syfi. Nat. 2. 850. 
Fn, Sv. 118. 
Fab. Ent. Syft. Nat. T. 8. p. 2. 120. Sp. 363. 
Wien. Verz. 75. 8. 
Raj. Inf. 168. 25. 
Geoffr. Inf. 2. 158, 96. 
Sulz. Hift. Inf. tab. 22. fig. 7. 
Reaum. Inf. 1. tab. 43. fig. 9. 11. 
Frifch. Inf. 6. tab. 9. 
Merian. Europ. 3. tab. 29. 
PEEL TAD 
The Water Betony Moth is a very abundant fpecies ; the larva 
feeds on the Moth Mullien, or Water Betony plant, as its name 
implies. It is in the larva ftate in July, becomes a pupa, and the 
fly is produced in April. 
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