. 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. Moth. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Antennae fetaceous: firft wings deep grey with large oblonSbrown fpo;s, encircled with white : fecond wings cinereous. PhaLjENA Spartiata: feticornis alis oblongisfufcis: vitta albida,pofticis cinereis. Fab. Ent.
. 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. Moth. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Antennae fetaceous: firft wings deep grey with large oblonSbrown fpo;s, encircled with white : fecond wings cinereous. PhaLjENA Spartiata: feticornis alis oblongisfufcis: vitta albida,pofticis cinereis. Fab. Ent. Syjl. T. 3. p. 181. fp. 188. Phal^ena Spartiata. Fueft. Arch. 2. tab. 5, Feeds on the broom, and is found in the winged Hate in June andJuly —It is fcarce, or at leaft very local. FIG. PLATE CCCXLII. 43 FIG. III. PHALiENA Moth. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Antennae fetaceous: wings pale, and uniformly ftreaked tranf-verfely with numerous fcalloped lines of brown. PhaljENA Undulata: feticornis alis omnibus ftrigis confertif-fimis undulatis fufcis. Linn. Syjl. Nat. 2. —Fn. Sv. Inf. tab. Inf. tab. 2. fig. 5. 6, Sometimes taken in Kent, particularly in Darent Wood, nearDartford. It feeds on the Willow and Oak, and appears in thftwinged ftate in June. PLATE. C h ] PLATE CCCXLIX. FIG. I. PHALINA Wing Moth. GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennas taper from the bafe. Wings in gencraldeflexed whenat reft. Fly by night. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND STNONTMS. Wings yellow, with numerous ferruginous tranfverfe angle violet. Phal^na Dolabraria : alis flavis: ftrigis ferrugineis angu-loque ani violaceo. Linn. Syji. Nat. T. 2451. Fab, fp. Inf. 2. p. 245. n, 207. G 2 FIG, 64 PLATE CCCXLIX. F I G. II. PHALjENA CHARACTER AND STNONTMS. Antenna; like a brittle. Wings white, with bands of browrafpots. Thorax and tail yellow. Phal^na Urtica : feticornis alis albis fufco fafciato-
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