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 microscope : the whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens . THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH INSECTS. PLATE CCLIIL PHALiENA PAVONIA, minor, fern. Emperor Moth, female. The male of this fine fpecies of Phal^na has been given in thefirft Number of this Work, with a promife that the female fhouldbe added in a future Plate. The larv
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 microscope : the whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens . THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH INSECTS. PLATE CCLIIL PHALiENA PAVONIA, minor, fern. Emperor Moth, female. The male of this fine fpecies of Phal^na has been given in thefirft Number of this Work, with a promife that the female fhouldbe added in a future Plate. The larva and pupa is reprefented withthe male lnfe6l ; but we have alfo introduced other caterpillars ofthe fame fpecies with the annexed figure, to fhew the differentftages of their growth. When young they are yellowifh : the tuber-cles black, with a (tripe of the fame on the fegments of the this, the yellow bands become orange, and the tranfverfe blackftripes appear interrupted with longitudinal bands of pale green. Someare entirely green, except the tubercles, which are yellow, and a fmallblack fpeck on each joint; and others are green, chequered withblack, and marked on the fide with a row of femilunar fpots. In A 2 the 4 PLATE CCLIII. the winged ftate, we find more permanent and chara£l:eriftic
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