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 . [ 41 J PLATE CCLXVII. F I G. I. II. PHALiENA DEGEERELLA. Long Horn Japanned Moth. CHARACTER, Antcnnse, taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed, whenat reft. Fly by night. TINEA. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND STNONTMS. Black, bronzed, or changeable
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 . [ 41 J PLATE CCLXVII. F I G. I. II. PHALiENA DEGEERELLA. Long Horn Japanned Moth. CHARACTER, Antcnnse, taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed, whenat reft. Fly by night. TINEA. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND STNONTMS. Black, bronzed, or changeable to gold. A yellow indented bandacfofs the anterior wings. Antenna very long. Phaltena Degeerella : aiis atro aureis : fafcia flava, antennislongis. Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 895. 426.—Fn. Sv. 1393,Alucita Degeerella. Fab. Ent. -i,. f. ;. 341. 40, The tv/o fexes of this beautiful ajid extraordinary little Infecl hasbeen defcrihed as two diftin£t fpecies. They differ principally inthe form and fize of the antennas ; in the female thefe are entirelyfetaceous, or like a fine hair, three times the length of the wholebody: the antennas in the male are fhorter, and are thick in themiddle, not very unlike thofe of fome kinds of Sphinges, It is notuncommon in hedges in May and June. 4e PLATE CCLXVII. F I G. III.
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