. The natural history of British insects; explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, oeconomy, &c. together with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microcsope. The whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens. mbling letter L. PhaLjENA Wauaria : pe&inicornis, alis cinereis, anticis fafciis quatuor nigris abbreviatis inequalibus. Linn. SyJL Nat. 2. 863. 219.—Fn. Sv. 124$.—Fat. Spec. Inf. 2. 249. * minor, alis amplis cinereo albicantibus 4 in exteriorum margine macul
. The natural history of British insects; explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, oeconomy, &c. together with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microcsope. The whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens. mbling letter L. PhaLjENA Wauaria : pe&inicornis, alis cinereis, anticis fafciis quatuor nigris abbreviatis inequalibus. Linn. SyJL Nat. 2. 863. 219.—Fn. Sv. 124$.—Fat. Spec. Inf. 2. 249. * minor, alis amplis cinereo albicantibus 4 in exteriorum margine maculis linearibus e rufo nigricantibus. Raj. Inf. 179. Merian Eur op. I. tab. 25. fig. 151. Frifcb. Inf. S. tab. 3. fig. 1. Roef. Inf. 1. phal. 2. tab. 4. Wilh Pap. 52. tab. 2. a. 2. Ammirai. Inf. tab. 13. fig. 2. 3. 38 PLATE CXCVI. Except Pbalcena Groffulariata *, figured in the early part of thiswork, few fpecies are more common than this, on the fmaller kindsof fruit trees, but particularly the Goofeberry. Harris calls it theL Moth from the refemblance which one of the black marks on theanterior wing bear to that letter. The young Caterpillars appear almoft as early as the leaves, andchange to chryfalis late in May; in this Hate they remain abouttwenty days before the Moth is produced. • Curraat M«th. PLATE . r x. E 47 ] PLATE XXI. PHAL^NA Moth*Lepidoptera. GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennas taper from the bafe t wings in general defle&ed when atreft. Fly by night. * Geometra. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Antennae pe&inated : wings fomewhat indented, yellow, pow-dered with fufcous, and a fufcous lunule in the middle of the ante-rior ones. PhaLjENA PRUNARIA: peflinicornis fubdentatis luteis fufcopulverulentis : anticis lunula fufca. Linn. 2. 861. 208.—^. Suec. 1232. Fahr. Ent. Syjl. T. 3. p. 2. 141. 43. Wlen Verz. 104. 17- Schaefflcon. tab. If. fig. 2. 3. Albin. Inf. 42. tab. <?9. Variable in colour from yellow to deep orange, and the fpot inthe
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