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 . ECIFIC CHARACTER. ^HALiENA aurosignata. Anterior wings purplifh varied withfufcous: in the middle a vermicular golden charac-ter irregularly lobate -*t one extremity. This ia an extremely fcarce, and we believe, undefcribed its general appearance this curious i
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 . ECIFIC CHARACTER. ^HALiENA aurosignata. Anterior wings purplifh varied withfufcous: in the middle a vermicular golden charac-ter irregularly lobate -*t one extremity. This ia an extremely fcarce, and we believe, undefcribed its general appearance this curious infea is nearly allied to theNoaua&interrogationis of Fabricius; it is as large as the Common YMoth (No8ua gamma) the anterior wings are tmged with purple,and the flexuous mark in the middle of each golden, The habits ofthis fpecies are unknown. \ # 2 FIG, 44 PLATE CCCCLIXI. FIG. LEUCONOTA. WHITE-BACKED MOTH. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. PHALIENA LEUCONOTA. Fufcous : thorax, baclc part of the ante-rior wings, and tranfverfe bandwhite : abdomen andpofterior wings whitilh. A fingle fpecimen of this elegant and ftrikingly lingular Phalaena,occurs in the cabinet of the late Mr. Drury; the figure in the annexedplate reprtfents it in its natural fize, and it is the only example of thefpecies we have feen. PLATE ?fSZ. [ 53 ] PLATE CCCCLVIIL PHALiENA GRAMINIS. ANTLER MOTH. i GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennas tapering from the bafe : wings in general defMed whenat reft. Fly by night. JBombyx. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND brown,, with a trifurcated whitifh line, and dot. Ph AL^na graminis : alis grifeis : linea trifurca pun6toque albidis. Linn. Fn. Suec. 1140.—Acl. Stockh. 1742. p. 40. t. 2. Fab. Spec. Inf. 2. p. 204. n. 148. Syfi. Ent. 2. 586. 106. Frifchinf. 10. t. tricuspis Hiib. Schmet. 3. t. I. This infect obtained the name of Antler Moth among the oldcollectors, in allufion to the trifurcated whitifh mark on the anteriorwings, which bears fome refemblance
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