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 . ed to avery fine fanguineous, and after to a fcarlet, or nearly vermilion co-our; thrs colour it retained for feveral months, but as the time forthe emancipation of the Moth within approached, the brightnefs of red PLATE LXXVI. ii red fomewhat abated, though even after
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 . ed to avery fine fanguineous, and after to a fcarlet, or nearly vermilion co-our; thrs colour it retained for feveral months, but as the time forthe emancipation of the Moth within approached, the brightnefs of red PLATE LXXVI. ii red fomewhat abated, though even after the Fly came forth, much ofthe original colour remained. The manner in which it burfts open the cafe is rather fingular;it does not force an opening in an irregular form, as moft Infe&swhich fpin a cafe, but defcribes an exacl circle within at one end ;after this it divides its cafe according to that circle, only leaving afmall portion to acl: as an hinge; when it has extricated itfelf from theChryfalis, it forces the top of the cafe back, as mown in our Figure,and thereby a free paffage is opened for its delivery. The infide of the cafe is perfectly fmooth, and appears as if po-lifhed by art; it is of a pale blue colour, the Chryfalis within is brown. The Fly came forth on the izth of July, 1794, C2 PLATE /<<. [ 6i ] PLATE CCCXVI. PHALiENA Vapourer Moth. GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennas taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed when atreft. Fly by night. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Wings incumbent, brown. Two white fpots on the flrft wings ;one placed on the anterior, and the other nearly oppofite, on thepofterior margin. Female without wings. Phaljena Gononstigma : acis incumbentibus fufcis : maculisduabus albis oppofitis, foemina aptera. Linn. 2. 826. 57.—Fab. Ent. Syji. T. 1. p. 477,7^.217. Roef. Inf. I. phal. 2. tab, Inf. tab. 90. The Phalsena Gononftigma, and Phalaena Antiqua are very fimiJarboth irr the larva and w
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