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MANY-PLUaiED MOTH. 
ner of a feather, of a central shaft, and fine diverg- 
ing cilia on tivo of its sides. Each of the anterior 
wings contains eight of these fringed rays, and each 
of the hinder ones fonr only. The palpi are long, 
slender, and reciurved ; the terminal joint very long 
and acnte, and turned npwards. The antennas are 
rather short, the thorax not crested, and the body 
scarcely extends beyond the hinder edge of the 
wings. The species figured usually expands about 
half an inch or npwards, and is of an ashy grey 
colour, with an irregular brown b.and near the 
middle of the anterior wings and another on the 
hinder margin, both of them with a whitish line 
adjoining. The posterior ^vings are variegated mth 
bromi and white, and a small black spot is visible 
on the tip of all the plumes. 
The moth is found not unfi-equently in houses, 
towards the close of autumn, most commonly on 
the inside of windows creeping on the glass. 
