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 . g entirely onaquatic plants, and is therefore fcarcely even met with, except in thewinged rlate, which it afliunes in May. The diflimilarity between thetwo fexes of this fpecies is altogether fo very remarkable, that it i*only from an intimate acquaintance with the mann
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 . g entirely onaquatic plants, and is therefore fcarcely even met with, except in thewinged rlate, which it afliunes in May. The diflimilarity between thetwo fexes of this fpecies is altogether fo very remarkable, that it i*only from an intimate acquaintance with the manners of the two infedfcjin a rlate of nature, or the concurrent teftimony of many obferversthat we could be induced to believe them both of the fame fpecies. Fabricius, and Gmelin after him, fays, the larva is greenifh, hairywith whirls of black dots, and yellowim head. The figures in EfperT. 3. pi. 42, reprefent the larva of a cinereous colour, verticillated withblack dots, and tufts of ferruginous hairs. Other writers fpeak of thehead and tail being red. Tliofe different defcriptions may be eafily, how*ever, reconciled by prefuming thofe authors had each noticed the larvaat different periods of growth, or perhaps this diffimilarity may ferve topoint out the difference between the two fexes, even in the larvaHate. PLATE. [ 39 ] PLATE DLV. PHALiENA PHJEORRHCEA. BROWN TAIL MOTH. LEPIDOPTERA. GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennae taper from the bafe: wings in general deflected when atreft. Fly by night. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AM) SYNONYMS. White: rays of the antennae ferruginous: abdomen bearded andfufcous at the end. Phaljena Chrysorrhcea. var. Brown-tail Moth. Curtis Hifl. Brown-tail, A. D. 1782. Phaljena PhjEorkikea. Marjh. Linn. Tranf. V. \.p. 68. In the defcription of the 10th plate of this work we had occafionto allude, in general terms, to an overfight committed by Linnaeus in«onfounding the Yellow and Brown tail Moths under the fame name as 40 PLATE DLV. as a fingle fpecies: the
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