. 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. Caterpillars on the oak, and they always preferredthat food to any other. The Caterpillars are fmall in July, they pafsto the Pupa ftate in Autumn, and the Moths are to be taken about themiddle of March. Although, as we have juft obferved, this Infect does not partic
. 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. Caterpillars on the oak, and they always preferredthat food to any other. The Caterpillars are fmall in July, they pafsto the Pupa ftate in Autumn, and the Moths are to be taken about themiddle of March. Although, as we have juft obferved, this Infect does not particularlyclaim our regard as a rarity, it does not appear to have been defcribedby Lihnaus, or even by Fabricius in his Species Infectorum; and noaccount of it is included in Berkenhouts Outlines, in Harriss Cata-logue of Englifh Infects, or any other work we have had an opportu-nity of perufing. In its manners, the Caterpillar is not more lingular than in itsform; when young it is very active and in continual motion; but as itgrows larger it becomes more fluggifh in its difpofition: it will fome-times affix itfelf by its hind feet to one of the extreme branches of thetree on which it feeds, in the fame manner as fhewn in our plate, andwill remain in that pofiure feveral hours without the leaft apparentfigns of life. PLATE 97. C 67 3 PLATE XCVII. PHAL^NA Emerald Moth,lepidoptera. GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennas taper from the bafe. Wings in general contracted whenat reft. Fly by night. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Fine lucid green, two white waves acrofs the upper, and one acrofsthe under wings. This fpecies we have ever found peculiar to the woods about twoor three miles beyond Dartford (Kent), particularly on the fkirts ofDarnwood, and near the banks of the river Thames at Queenhithe;it has probably never been taken elfewhere, or the name DartfordEmerald would not have been fo generally adopted by Collectors. It is not very frequent even in thofe local fituations, nor can w
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