INSECTS. LEPIDOPTERA. 73. Phalana. Geom. 279 
A very common and troublefome infeft in kitchens and larders, 
among butter bacon and fat of every kind, and is faid to have 
been found in human ftomach. 
Larva 1 6-footcd naked ihining brown ; pupa naked dull red- 
dilh-brovvn. 
Feelers flightly recurved ; wings olive with a pale indented 
band behind. 
Inhabits Wien. Verx. izo. 14, 
Hind-margin of the upper-vcings ftriate with brown : lmuer~voings 
pale, the edge a little yellowiih. Beneath upper-pair brown, 
lower-ones pale. 
Wings cinereous with 2 yellow ftreaks on the upper-pair 
and one on the lower. 
Inhabits hah. 
Antennae limple : nvings cinereous beneath with darker ftreaks. 
Wings Ihining brown immaculate : head ferruginous. 
Inhabits Auftria. Wien. Ferz. xz^.zS. 
Upper-nuings with a copper-glofs : lovjer-ones brown. 
Upper-wings cinereous immaculate ; lower-ones and all 
beneath brownilh. 
Inhabits Italy. Body cinereous. 
Upper-wings greenilh immaculate ; lower-ones whitilh. 
Inhabits Aujlria. Wien. Verx. 123. 27. 
Upper- wings ochre-yellow ; lower-ones brown : all imma- 
culate. 
Inhabits Aufiria. Wien. Verz, 123. 28, 
Wings yellowilh with 3 ferruginous waved ftreaks on the 
upper-pair and 2 on the lower. 
Inhabits Africa. In the mufeum of Sir. fof\ Banks. 
Wings grey-brown ftriate with a kidney-ftiaped fpot mar- 
ked with a roman A. 
Found within the ftalks of corn, where it eats its way into the 
heads, rendering them dry and barren. 
Larva green with 3 brown lines, head reddilh. 
■ahs Wings cinereous with 2 darker dots and ftreaks. 
Inhabits American Hlands, 
