The natural history of British insects : explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, economy, &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 . [ 13 ] PLATE LXXVII. FIG. I. and F IG. 11. PHAL^NA CRISTALANA. Dark-button e pidoptera. GENERIC CHARACTER. Antenna taper from the bafe. Wings, in general contraaed whenjit rert. Fly by night. TORTRIX. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Upper wings yellow-brown, with dark fhade
The natural history of British insects : explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, economy, &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 . [ 13 ] PLATE LXXVII. FIG. I. and F IG. 11. PHAL^NA CRISTALANA. Dark-button e pidoptera. GENERIC CHARACTER. Antenna taper from the bafe. Wings, in general contraaed whenjit rert. Fly by night. TORTRIX. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Upper wings yellow-brown, with dark fhades; a broad irregularwhite mark, and a tuft or button, on the center of each. Head andthorax white clouded. Lower wings pale brown. This fmgular Moth is very rarely met with; it has been taken inCoomhe-wood^ Surry^ and in Kent, but even in thofe places it is veryuncommon. It is diftinguiflied by the unufual form of the white markings on theupper wings, and particularly by the tuft or button which is fituatedin an upright pofition near the center of each; thofe tufts appear onlyfiightly feathered on the upper parts to the naked eye, but when oneof them is examined with a microfcope, or even common magnifier,it prefents the appearance of a bundle of fibres, inclofed within a thinmembrane; narrow at the bafe, encreafing in b
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