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 . ts. Bombyx Pafyratia. Marjh. Linn. Tranf, 1. p. 72. tab. 4. Refembles the large or common Ermine Moth, and feems to havebeen very frequently confounded with that fpecies till its fpecificaldiftinclion was pointed out by our worthy friend Thomas Marfham,Efq. in a
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 . ts. Bombyx Pafyratia. Marjh. Linn. Tranf, 1. p. 72. tab. 4. Refembles the large or common Ermine Moth, and feems to havebeen very frequently confounded with that fpecies till its fpecificaldiftinclion was pointed out by our worthy friend Thomas Marfham,Efq. in a memoir printed in the firft volume of the Tranfactions ofthe Linnasan Society. It differs principally in having black dots atthe tip of the wings only, except one or two reaching in a line towards t_ B« Mcnthraftri of Fabricius. the po PLATE DLXXI. the bafe: the abdomen fulvous, and the tip white. In P. Ermineathe black dots on the wings are more numerous.—We muft, however,add, that, in fome inftances, the wings of Bombyx papyratia occurswith fcarcely any black dots, The female has alfo, in general, fewerfpots than the male. This fpecies in the larva ftate feeds on aquatic plants, and, as thetrivial name implies, is ufually found in watery places in the wingedstate. The larva is fufcous and hairy; pupa black. PLATE /.
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