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 . and white, in irregularfpots and lines. Beneath, one eye-fpot on the anterior wings, andfive on the pofterior ones. Papilio Galathea : alis dentatis albo nigroque variis: fubtusanticis ocello unico, pofticis quinque. Linn. Syji,Nat. 2. 772. 147. FaL Ent. Syji. T. 3. /
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 . and white, in irregularfpots and lines. Beneath, one eye-fpot on the anterior wings, andfive on the pofterior ones. Papilio Galathea : alis dentatis albo nigroque variis: fubtusanticis ocello unico, pofticis quinque. Linn. Syji,Nat. 2. 772. 147. FaL Ent. Syji. T. 3. /. I. 239. Icon. tab. 98. /^. 7, 8, Inf. 3, tab. 37. fig. pap. I. fab. 7. fig. 3.—Tab. 25, fig. Inf. Europ. i. tab. Muf. 4. 3. tab. I. fig. i* This 16 PLATE CCLVIII. This Infe£l is very common in the fly (late in the month of frequents meadows, and is fuppofed to feed on grafs in the larvaHate. The larva is very feldom met with. It is thus defcribed byfome authors: Larva deprefled, or flattifh, of a yellowifh colour,marked with an obfcure line down the back and fides. The Pupablue, with a red tail *. The light colour in the wings varies in different infects, fomebeing almoft white, and others pale yellow. * Naturf. 14. tab. 2. fg i.—Fab. Ent. Syji. ©c. PLATE ooy. C 17 ] PLATE CCLIX. PAPILIOSEMELE. Black-eyed marbled GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennas clubbed at the end. Wings ereft, when at reft. Flyby day. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND BT NO NT MS. Wings dentated, dark brown, with fulvous fpots next to theexterior margin. Two black rings, or eyes, on the anterior, andone on the pofterior wings. Papilio Semele, alis dentatis: fafcia maculari fulva ocellifqueduobus : anticis fubtus difco bafeos. Linn. Syjl„Nat. 2. 772. 14-8.—Fn. Su. Ent. Syjl. T. 3. ^. i. 232. pap. I. tab. 8. jig. ^ff. Icon. tab. 207. Jig. 3, Hijl. InJ. tab. l^]. fig. Sy 6. This fpecles lives chiefly in the w
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