. 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. hen at reft. Fly by night. Geometra. SPECIFIC CHARACTER SYNONYMS. Wings pale brown, with dark fufcous middle band, and greyiftiindented common band behind : pofterior legs deeply ciliated. Geometra conversaria. Hubn. Schmet. 6%. 321 ? D 2 This 20 PLATE DXIV. This int
. 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. hen at reft. Fly by night. Geometra. SPECIFIC CHARACTER SYNONYMS. Wings pale brown, with dark fufcous middle band, and greyiftiindented common band behind : pofterior legs deeply ciliated. Geometra conversaria. Hubn. Schmet. 6%. 321 ? D 2 This 20 PLATE DXIV. This interefting acquilition to the Britifh Entomologift was dif-covered by Mr. W. E. Leach, the latter end of Auguft, about theyear J 807, in Warley-wood, at Tamerton, near Plymouth, Devon-shire. The fize of this infeft is confiderable, the colour above pale brown,vrith a rich dark fufcous band acrofs the middle, and immediatelybehind it, a broad and very pale common band, circumfcribed aboveby an angulated, and beneath by an indented palifh line. The wholefurface is fprinkled with fpecks of brown. The under furface ispaler, with more obfolete fpeckling, and fome blotches of fufcous,forming an interrupted common band in the middle. The fouranterior legs are naked as ufual, the two pofterior deeply fringed withfine hairs. PLATE 52. [ 47 ] PLATE DXXVII. PHAKENA ROBORARIA. GREAT OAK BEAUTY GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennae taper from the bafe: tongue fpiral: wings in generaldeflected when at reft. Fly by night. CHARACTER SYNONYMS. Wings indented, grey with numerous brown ftreaks and fpecks;beneath whitifh, lower wings, with a fufcous lunule in the middle. PHALiENA robokaria : pe&inicornis alis dentatis grifeis: atomisftrigifque numerofis fufcis. Fabr. Ent. Syfi. n. 23,—Efp. T. 2. Several 43 PLATE DXXVIL Several very beautiful, and rather difim6t. varieties of this line fpeciesoccur in Auftria: that which we have delineated is the only va
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