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 microscope : the whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens . C 73 ] PLATE- XXXIII. F I G. I. ,V. PHALi^NA BATIS. Peach-blossom Moth. Lepidoptera. Phal-sma. GENEPs-IC CHARACTER. Antennse taper from their apex. Wings in. general contradieilwhen at left. Fly by night. *N0CTUAi SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Firft pair of Wings brown, with f
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 microscope : the whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens . C 73 ] PLATE- XXXIII. F I G. I. ,V. PHALi^NA BATIS. Peach-blossom Moth. Lepidoptera. Phal-sma. GENEPs-IC CHARACTER. Antennse taper from their apex. Wings in. general contradieilwhen at left. Fly by night. *N0CTUAi SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Firft pair of Wings brown, with fi\>?. peach-coloured fpots oneach. Second pair light brown. The Peach-bloiTom Moth at firft fight (o evidently diftinguifhesitfelf, that it can fcarcely be rdiftaken. The upper or firft pair ofWings have the ground of a brown colour, v/nich in fome direftionsof light affume a golden appearance; and on each Wing ele-gantly difpofed fpots of white, having each a center of the moft beau-tiful bloom, or bloifom colour, which blend into the white with the moftcxquifite foftnefs. The under Wings are of a fimple colour, and haveonly a tranfverfe fhade of a darker hue acrofs the middle of each Wing. Its iruly elegant appearance v/ould alone be fuiScient to claim our attention; but when we add that it is one of the rare
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