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 . v. 1189. Phalam PLATE CCXXIII. i9 Pbalana antennis filiformibus, alis deflexis fufcis nitidis, pun&istribus centralibus nigris, capite flavo. Degeer Genu. 303. 10. tab. 7. fig. 15. Found on the Goats beard, Spinach, and Docks.—Our fpecimenwas taken in June.


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 . v. 1189. Phalam PLATE CCXXIII. i9 Pbalana antennis filiformibus, alis deflexis fufcis nitidis, pun&istribus centralibus nigris, capite flavo. Degeer Genu. 303. 10. tab. 7. fig. 15. Found on the Goats beard, Spinach, and Docks.—Our fpecimenwas taken in June. FIG. III. PHALvENA LICHENES. Liver-wort Moth. Lepidoptera. Phal^ena. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Thorax crefted : anterior wingsgreeniih, varied with black marks ;beneath fufcous. Noctua Lichenes : criftata, alis deflexis : anticis viridibus, ma-culis variis atris, fubtus fufcis. Fab. Syji. Ent. —Spec. Inf. 2. 235. 127.—Ent. Syjl. 3. p. 2,p. 104. 312. Noaua Wicn. Vera. 70. 2. * E % We 20 PLATE CCXXIH. We have, found this fpecies againft walls on which the hike* fufco-ater was growing. The larva is fuppofed to feed on plants of that genus. One fpecimen was found in Oaober, another early in the fpring, from which we conclude there mutt be two broods of them in the year. PLATE 23<3.


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