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PHAL @NA RUMICT § 
BRAMBLE Morn. 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER: 
Antenne taper from the bafe. Wings in general contracted when 
at reft. Fly by night. 
~NOCT UZ: 
Antennz like a hair. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 
Firft wings grey, marked with pale black ftreaks and clouds, with 
an eye in the middle, and two white {pots on the anterior margin. 
Second wings pale brown. 
Poaténa Rumicis. N, criftata, alis deflexis cinereo fufcoque 
variis litura marginis tenuioris alba.— 
Fab. Spec. Unf. 2.0238. 143. 
PHaLana Rumicis. fpirilinguis criftata, alis deflexis cinereo 
bimaculatis, litura marginis tenuioris 
alba. Linn. Syft. Nat. 2. 852. 164.— 
Fn. Sv. 1200. 
Merian. Europ. tab. 82. 
Alb. Inf. tab. 32. 
VWitka pap. 20. 1a. 31a. %. 
Degeer Inf. 4. tab. 9. fig. 2. 
Me NOUN OT a Raa 
The Caterpillar of this Moth are ufually found on the Bramble, 
from which it has received its Englifh name; it is not, however, 
wholly confined to that food, as we have fed it on grafs and other 
plants indifcriminately put into its breeding-cage. It paffes to the 
chryfalis ftate in September; the Fly appears in May. 
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