64 PLATE CCCXLIX. 



F I G. II. 



PHALjENA urticata. 

 SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS. 



Antenna; like a brittle. Wings white, with bands of browra 

 fpots. Thorax and tail yellow. 



Phal^na Urtica : feticornis alis albis fufco fafciato-maculatis, 

 thorace anoque flavis. Linn. Syjl. Nat. 2. 873 < 

 272. 



Fab. Ent. Syft. T. 3. p. 2. p. 209. fp. 299. 

 Roef. Inf. l.pbal. 4. tab. 14. 

 Degeer. Inf. I. tab. 28. Jig. 18. 19, 

 Geoffr. Inf. 2. 135. 



The larva conceals itfelf in a kind of cylinder, which it forms by 

 rolling up the edges of the nettle leaves on which it feeds. It is 

 whitifh, with a dark dorfal line, head black, and two fpots of the 

 fame colour on the fegment next the head. 



FIG. 



