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 microcsopeThe whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens . ftata alls deflexis cineris bimaculatis: pof-ticis fafcia rufa abbreviata.—Linn. Syjl. Nat. 2. 854»174.—Fab. Ent. Syji. I. 2. p, 2. 97. Inf. 1. phal. 2. tab. 51. When the late Duchefs of Portland honoured the fcientific aswell as praQical part of Entomology with
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 microcsopeThe whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens . ftata alls deflexis cineris bimaculatis: pof-ticis fafcia rufa abbreviata.—Linn. Syjl. Nat. 2. 854»174.—Fab. Ent. Syji. I. 2. p, 2. 97. Inf. 1. phal. 2. tab. 51. When the late Duchefs of Portland honoured the fcientific aswell as praQical part of Entomology with her patronage, her Gracedifcovered, and reared from the Caterpillar Mate, feveral fpecies of thePhalaena tribe, not before known as natives of this country; andamong the number of thofe may be enumerated this elegant brood was found in one of the Portland ifles. G S Fabricius 80 PLATE CCXIII. Pabricius fays the larva feeds on the thiitle. The rarity of thiscreature induced us tor depart from our ufual method, and copy thelarva and pupa from the plate in the works of Roefel, apprehendingit would be particularly interefHng to Englilh naturalifts in general,as that author alone has reprefented it in thofe Hates; and no collectorthat we are informed has met with it within the laft fifteen year$. PLAT1 16.
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