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 . eflexis cinereis, ftrigis tribus tin- datis fufcis. Lin. Syfb. Nat. 2. 824. Sv. Spec. Inf. 2. 18S. Syjl. Tom.^3. p. 4S8. pe£Hnicornis> elinguis, alis deflexis cinereo imdulatis, fafciis tranfverfis obfcurioribus, capiteinter p
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 . eflexis cinereis, ftrigis tribus tin- datis fufcis. Lin. Syfb. Nat. 2. 824. Sv. Spec. Inf. 2. 18S. Syjl. Tom.^3. p. 4S8. pe£Hnicornis> elinguis, alis deflexis cinereo imdulatis, fafciis tranfverfis obfcurioribus, capiteinter pedes porreCtoc. Gecf. Inf. cinerea, alis obiongis, exterioribus quatuor lineis nigrican- tibus tranfverfis, diftinclis. Rcj. 7. Roef. Inf. 2. tab. tab. Inf. 3. tab. Europ. 1. tab. Inf. I. tab. 16. fig. 11; 2 The 60 PLATE CLX. The light Tuflbck Moth is found late in September, or during themonth of Oaober. The Caterpillar is both beautiful and Angular:it feeds on the oak, on which it is met with, from the latter end ofJuly till the middle of September, at which time it is of its full fize,and becomes a pupa ; it fpins a web between the leaves, and remainsin the chryfalis about thirty days. The eggs are of a pale brownifhcolour, fig. 1. PLATE I. -?£5 t 01 ]Hate dlxxvl PHALJENA FASCEL1NA; DARK TUSSOCK GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennae taper from the bafe: wings in general deflected u hen at rest t fly by night. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Wings defle6led, cinereous^ fprinkled with black points, and tra-verfed by two rlexuous fulvous ftreaks. Phal^na fascelina: alis deflexis cinereis: atomis ftrigifqueduabus repandis. Linn Syft. Nat. 2. 825. . Su. 1119.—Fair. Ent. Syft. T. 3. p. 98. The larva of this Moth is hairy and tufted, the pupa larva is found (chiefly on the oak) iu the month of May; theMoth appears in July. A local fpecies^ common in fome parts
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