TAB. LII.
P HA L M N A F E L L E D A.
GREAT BLACK AND W H IT E TUSSOCK MOTH.
QUERCUS P H E L L O S . L IN N , p A IT . IIO R T . KEPT. F. 3. . 354.
DWARF W IL L OW -L E A V E D . OAK.
P h . Bombyx elinguis, alis reverfis dorfoque nigris: nervis margineque ftrigifque quatuor albis.
Phalæna velleda. Cram. Pap. Suppl, t. AX. f . A.
E a t s th e Willow-Oak and the f e r f im m o n ( Diofpyros virg in ia n a ) . I t Ipun on
th e lo th o f Atlguft, and came o u t on the win g 22d o f September. T h e chryialis
may frequently be met w ith attached to weeds and. b u l l i e s , and fattened to a tw ig
or ftalk, as in th e figure.
The figure above quoted, given by Stoll in his fupplement to Cramer, is undoubtedly a
reprefentation o f the female of this moth, and hence it appears to vary a little occafionally in
the breadth and difpofition of its tranfverfe ftripes; but the leading characters can never be
miltaken. Its caterpillar indicates fome affinity to Phaltena ilicifolia, near which this fpecics
ought to be placed, Ph. Pint of Linnaeus perhaps only coming between them.