8 PLATH €CCXXVII. 
better known by that name than any other we could adopt, it is 
thought moft advifable to retain it. 
This Moth is uncommonly fearce in Great Britain, ‘The larva 
is of a pale or greenifh white colour with three longitudinal ftripes 
of brown and a few black bars acrofs. It feeds on the Willow and 
Alder. Four of thofe larva were taken in the wood of Darent, 
1793: and one of them was reared to the winged ftate. 
FeeG.. Ul. 
PHALANA AL NA. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Thorax crefted: anterior wings brown with two broad {paces of 
grey, divided by a tran{verfe dark bar, and a kidney-fhaped {pot in the 
middle: pofterior wings whitifh with a marginal row of browrf 
fpots, and pale brown apex. 
PHALENA ALNI: criftata alis deflexis fuliginofis: areis duabus 
cinerafcentibus priore puncto marginali nigro. 
Linn. Syft. Nat. 2. 845. 134.——Fab. Ent. Syft. 
dire. 2. fp. 89. 
No€tua Degener. Wien. Verz. 70. 4.—Degeer. Inf. 1. tab. 11. 
UE 
One of the rare Englith fpecies of Phalezna known amongit col- 
lectors by the general name of Portland Moths, having been firft 
difcovered and introduced to notice as natives of this country by the 
late Dutchefs Dowager of Portland. 
FIG. 
