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 . nf. 2. tab. 12. tab. 1. The 76 PLATE CLXV. The caterpillar of this fpecies is found on the White Thorn, inApril; in May it becomes a pupa: the moth does not appear beforeSeptember. It will fee readily conjectured, from its Englifh name, to be mo
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 . nf. 2. tab. 12. tab. 1. The 76 PLATE CLXV. The caterpillar of this fpecies is found on the White Thorn, inApril; in May it becomes a pupa: the moth does not appear beforeSeptember. It will fee readily conjectured, from its Englifh name, to be morefrequently taken about Ealing, in Middlefex, than elfewhere, thoughit is not peculiar, like fome infe&s, to one place only. The cater-pillar is fmooth, or without any hairs ; it eats ravenoufly, is veryfluggifh, and forms a fine filky web, in the ground, in which it paffesto the pupa Hate *. We find the moth very liable to variation incolours; in fome fpecimens the green is very brilliant, in others thered; and again, in others, the lunar- white marks are very con-fpicuous. In fome fpecimens, natives of warm countries, we havefeen them finer coloured than thofe from the northern parts ofEurope * In the plate of this fpecies in RoeePs German Infects, the filky cone of the pupau drawn in the convex part of a
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