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PLATE CCLXXV. 



PHAL1NA ALNIARIA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae, taper from the bafe : wings in general deflected when at 

 reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Antennas pe&inated : wings yellow, fpeckled with brown, marked 

 with two tranfverfe flreaks and deeply fcalloped. 



Phal£NA Alniaria : pe&inicornis alis erofis flavis fufco pul- 

 verulentis : ftrigis duabus fufcis. Linn. Syfi. Nat. 2. 

 860. 205.— Fn. Sv. 1839. Fab. Ent. Syji. T. 2. p. 2. 

 p. 136. Sp. £4. Schaf. Icon. tab. 135. jig. 1.2. 



This Infe£t is analogous to feveral other fpecies of Britifh Pha- 

 lsenae, known amongft colleclors by the indefinite term or Thorn 

 Moths. It is remarkable only in the larva flate, when, from its 

 fimilarity in form and colour to a twig of the tree on which it feeds, 

 it is fuppofed to efcape the notice of its enemies. It is a dull crea- 

 ture, and will often remain in an oblique, or ere£t pofition, without 

 motion, or appearance of life, for feveral hours together. 



It is found on fruit-trees, in the ftate of larva, in May: the Moth 

 appears in Auguft or September. 



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