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PLATE CCXCIIL 



FIG. I. 



PHALiENA ULMATA. 

 Scarce Elm Moth. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antenna taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed whea 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS. 



Antennas fetaceous. Wings white, with a double row of pale 

 black fpots acrofs the middle : a ferruginous brown fpot at the bafe, 

 and another at the poflerior margin of the firft pair : a fimilar fpot in 

 the interior margin of the fecond pair alfo. 



Phal^ena Ulmata: feticornis alis albidis: fafciis duabus ferru- 



gineo fufcisj poftica maculari. Fab. Ent. Syft. 3. 



p. 2. p. 176. Sp. 171. 

 Phabena pantaria peclinicornis alis albis : fafcia maculari flavicante, 



abdomine luteo nigro punctata. Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 



863. 218. 



This fpecies bears fome affinity to the Phalena GrofTulariata, or 

 Currant Moth. It is very rare, and has been hitherto found only in 

 Yorkfhire. It appears the third week in June. The larva feeds on 

 the elm : it is green, ftreaked with black, and has a black head > the 



pupa blueifh. 



B 2 FIG. 



