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PLATE CCCCLVHL 
PHALZANA GRAMINIS, 
ANTLER MOTH. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne tapering from the bafe - wings in general defle&ted when 
at reft.' Fly by night. 2 
Bombyx. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SY NONYMS. 
Wings brown, with a trifurcated whitith Ime, and dot. 
PHALENA GRAMINIS: alis grifeis: linea trifurca punétoque albidis. 
Linn. Fn, Suec. 1140.—Aét. Stockh. 1742. p. 40. 
t. 2. 
Fab. Spec. Inf. 2. p. 204. n. 148. 
Sy. Ent. 2. 586. 106. 
frifch inf. 10. t. 21. 
Nottua tricuspis Hib. Schmet. 3. t, 60. fig. I. 
This infect obtained the name of “ Antler Moth” among the old 
collectors, in allufion to the trifurcated whitith mark on the anterior 
wings, which bears fome refemblance to the antler of a ftag. In this - 
country the fpecies is very uncommon; in fome other parts of Eu- 
rope on the contrary it is exceedingly abundant, and as it feeds on 
grafs 
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