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This species occurs in the Atlantic States, and its larvae feed on oak. 
The moths emerge in May and June, the larvae may be found from 
June to September, and the winter is passed i in the pupal stage. 
The male moth of Phigalia titea (Cram.) is pale ash color with 
blackish-brown markings and has a wing expanse of about 11 inches. 
The head in front is brown, the vertex white, the thorax whitish with 
a black collar, and the abdomen has two rows of black dots on the 
back. The forewings are speckled with dark brown and have three 
blackish lines, the two inner parallel, the outer diverting and parallel 
to the outer edge, sometimes obsolete, but indicated by black spots. 
KIGURE eee of some of the more common and destructive species of 
Geometridae: A, Amphidasis cognataria; B, Lycia ursaria; C. Epimecis vir- 
ginaria ; D, Erannis tiliaria; H, Lambdina fiscellaria; F, Ennomos subsignarius ; 
G, Phigalia bitea: H, Cingilia catenaria; I, Lambdina athasaria pellucidaria; 
J, Lambdina athasaria. 
The outer margin has a broad diffuse shading edged with whitish 
and marked with a row of intervenular blackish spots. The hind 
wings are hghter and marked with three lines, the middle most dis- 
tinct and the inner and outer usually present only on the inner edge. 
The female has only partly developed wings, the forewings reaching 
to the second abdominal segment. The full-grown larva is about 
114 inches in length, is flesh colored with many fine wavy longitudinal 
blackish lines, which gives it a drab appearance. The head is flat, quad- 
rangular, and heavily mottled with black, the thoracic segments are 
thick, and all body segments have hairy tubercles, which are most 
prominent on the first three and the eighth abdominal segments 
(fie. 91, @). 
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