THE 
CLIFDEN MOTH. 
Generic Character. 
Antenna setaceous, decreasing in size from the 
base to the tip. 
Wings, when at rest, generally deflected. 
Flight nocturnal. 
Specific Character, &c. 
MOTH with crested thorax and denticulated 
wings, the upper pair grey clouded with 
brown, the lower black with a broad trans¬ 
verse blueish band. 
The CLIFDEN MOTH. Clifton Beauty. Non¬ 
pareil-Moth, &c. &c. 
The Phalasna Fraxini, one of the rarest as well 
as largest of the British Lepidoptera, is much less 
uncommon in Germany and several other parts of 
Europe; its larva, which is of a pale brown colour, 
feeds principally on the ash and willow, and changes 
into a slightly hairy brown chrysalis in the month 
of June, the Moth making its appearance in the 
following month. The male is easily distinguished 
from the female by its smaller size. 
