The natural history of British insects : explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, oeconomy, &ctogether with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microscope : the whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens . Wings deflexed. Yellow brown. Two oblique, whitifh, oryellow bands, confiding of interrupted and irregular fpots, acrofs theanterior wings. Phal^na Hecta: lutea, alis deflexls: primoribus fafciis duabusalbidis obliquis pundlatas interruptis. Fn. Sv. liJ^^.--^Gmel. Lin
The natural history of British insects : explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, oeconomy, &ctogether with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microscope : the whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens . Wings deflexed. Yellow brown. Two oblique, whitifh, oryellow bands, confiding of interrupted and irregular fpots, acrofs theanterior wings. Phal^na Hecta: lutea, alis deflexls: primoribus fafciis duabusalbidis obliquis pundlatas interruptis. Fn. Sv. liJ^^.--^Gmel. Linn. Syji. Nat. 26i].fp. 85. Hetialus Hectus. Fab. Ent. SyJi. T. 3. p. 2. p. 6. Sp. Inf. I. fab, 7. fg. II. This fpecies is common in the fkirts of woods in May and colours in the male Infeft are more vivid than the female, andthe fpots on the anterior wings in particular are of fuch a beautifulyellow, that Englifli colle£lors have termed this kind the GoldenSwift Moth. It commences its flight earlier in the evening than any other ofthe noc3;urnal lepidopterous infe6ls. Its manner of flying is veryfmgular, and attracted the notice of Linnaeus, who aptly comparesit to the motion of the pendulum of a clock. The larva is unknown: it is fuppofed t© feed on the roots ofplants under ground. PLATE CA,.
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