. 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. ^NA Moth. GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennze taper from the bafe : wings in general defle£led when atfreft. Fly by nighti SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYM^ Antennae pe£tinated, with fetaceous tip: wings entirely white,fpeckled with black* pHALifeNA BetularI
. 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. ^NA Moth. GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennze taper from the bafe : wings in general defle£led when atfreft. Fly by nighti SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYM^ Antennae pe£tinated, with fetaceous tip: wings entirely white,fpeckled with black* pHALifeNA BetularIA: pectinicornis, alis Omnibus albis, thorace fafcia nigra* antennis apice fetaceis. Linn. Syjl. Nat. 2. 862* 217* En. S-v. 1287. Tab. Spec. Inf. 2. 252. antennis peclinatis, alis horizontalibus albis nigro punc- tatis maculatifque, thorace faciato. Degeer. In/* Verz. Germ. 2, 1. 250. 1. tab. 5. fig, 18. Ammiral. Inf. tab. 21* Schaff. Icon. tab. 88. fig. 4>. 5. Albin. Inf. tab. 91, 92, Kkman. Inf 1. tab. 39. fig, 6. G 4 found 5 6 PLATE CCXXXVII. Found on the Lime, Willow, and Elm in the ftate of Larva,changes to the Pupa in September; and the Moth appears in Larva of this creature differ very much in their fhades of colour;they are generally blackifh or dark olive with a few obfcure redfpots. PLATE. [ 13 ] PLATE IV. PHAL^NA , or Currant-Moth,GENERIC CHARACTER. The Antennae fetaceous. Wings in general deflected when atreft. Fly by night. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Wings whitifh, with round black fpots, and a yellow ftreak onthe anterior pair. PhaLjENA GROSSULARIATA: alis albidis: maculis rotundatisnigris, primaribus ftrigis luteis- Linn. Faun. Suec,1261. The Magpye-Moth is one of the geometry; and feeds on Goofe-berry and Curfant-bufhes, as the name indicates. The Caterpillaris found in May ; and in July, the Fly, The Caterpillar, previous to its change to the Chryfalis ftate, fpinsa web of a very flight and delicate texture, by
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