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 . C 41 3 PLATE CCCVIL PHAL^NA Moth. GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennas taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed when atreft. Fly by night. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND STNONTMS. Brown: an irregular pale ftreak acrofs the anterior pair, and afmaller one near the b
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 . C 41 3 PLATE CCCVIL PHAL^NA Moth. GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennas taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed when atreft. Fly by night. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND STNONTMS. Brown: an irregular pale ftreak acrofs the anterior pair, and afmaller one near the bafe. A fingle pale ftreak acrofs the pofteriorpair. Phal^na Populi : fufca antice pallida, alis reverfis fufcefcen-tibus : ftriga fefquialtera repanda albida. Linn* Syjl*Nat. 2. 818. 34.—Fn. Sv. 1101.—Fab. Ent. Syjl. T. 3. p. 2. p. 429. fp. Verz,. 58. Inf. I. phal. 2. tab. 60. We feldom meet with this interefting fpecies, for it is found bothin the larva and perfect ftate in the feafon, when few collectors aredifpofed to feek for it. It feeds on the white-thorn, becomes a pupain November, and the Moth appears in December as its trivialEnglifh name implies. PLATE.
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