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 . [ 35 3PLATE CCXXX. FIG. I. PHALyENA MAURA. Old Lady Moth. LepidoptEra. GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennas taper from the bafe : wings in general deflected when atreft. Fly by night. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Thorax crefted: wings incumbent, exterior margins dentated,afti-
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 . [ 35 3PLATE CCXXX. FIG. I. PHALyENA MAURA. Old Lady Moth. LepidoptEra. GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennas taper from the bafe : wings in general deflected when atreft. Fly by night. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Thorax crefted: wings incumbent, exterior margins dentated,afti-colour, varied with black : margin beneath white. Noctua Maura criftata, alis incumbentibus dentatis, cinereo nigroque variis, fubtus margine albo. Fab. Syjl. Ent. 604. 61.—Spec. InJ. ft. 224. 81.—Ent. Syjl. 3, p. 2. 6B. maura fpirilinguis criflata, alis depreffis dentatis fafciis duabus nigris, inferioribus nigris, fafcia alba* Linn* Syjl. Nat. 2. 843. 1 Lemur Naturf. 6. tab. 5. fig. 1. Schaff. Icon. tab. 1. fig. This grave Moth appeai-s in the month of Auguft: it frequentsold houfes in evenings.—From its dingy appearance it is ufuallycalled the Old Lady. ^ f 3$ PLATE CCXXX. FIG. II. PHAL^NA Angle Shades Moth. Lepidoptera. Phal^na. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Cr
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