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 . dmirable contrail: to the more brilliant and varied teints of the upperWings. The Thorax is crefted, Berhnhout has given a very falfe defcription of the Caterpillar ofthis Infect, he fays it is fmooth, orange with white fpots; wethink it neceffary to note this error only
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 . dmirable contrail: to the more brilliant and varied teints of the upperWings. The Thorax is crefted, Berhnhout has given a very falfe defcription of the Caterpillar ofthis Infect, he fays it is fmooth, orange with white fpots; wethink it neceffary to note this error only as it may miflead youngCollectors, who have no other affiftant than his Synopfis, by whichthey can determine the Species, when in the Caterpillar ftate. It isaftonifhing how he could poflibly be led into this error, when Albin,Fabricius *, and all preceding authors on Entomology, have defcribedit fo plainly. It feeds on Nettles, and other Plants, growing among the lowherbage by the fide of banks; in fine feafons there are generallytwo broods of them from May, to June in the following year; thefirft are found early in May in the Caterpillar ftate, appear in Junein the winged ftate ; Caterpillars are full fed again in July, theMoths come forth in Auguft. * Larva folitaria, gibbofa, viridis albo ftriata. Fabricius. PLATE.
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