COMMON SILVER.LINE MOTH. 
Phalena Fagana. 
PLATE XXIX. 
Phalena fagana, Don. Brit. Ins, — Chlephora Fagana, 
Stephens.—Rennie’s Conspectus, page 155. 
THE antenne taper from the base; the wings 
are deflexed when at rest; they extend one inch 
and three-fourths to five-sixths ; the superior ones 
of a deep yellow green, having three oblique white 
silvery stripes across each; the lower wings and 
abdomen are of a pale yellow green. The male 
differs from the female in having the lower wings 
yellowish green, with a thicker snow white mar- 
gin. 
The Phalena Fagana is not one of the rarest 
British Moths, and claims attention from its beauti- 
ful and gay appearance. ‘The larva is found feeding 
on the oak in August and September. In the be- 
ginning of October it spins a very extraordinary 
kind of covering in the leaf of the oak, and changes 
to the pupa within it. This covering somewhat 
resembles a tent, or rather an inverted boat, being 
shuttle-formed, and having a keel or longitudinal 
ridge along the upper part ; its colour is yellowish 
