. 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. t 75 PLATE CLXV. PHALiENA OXYACANTH^. Ealings GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennae taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed when atreft* Fly by night. No£iua. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND ST NO NT MS. Firfl: wings, dark brown, with two large irregular fpo
. 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. t 75 PLATE CLXV. PHALiENA OXYACANTH^. Ealings GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennae taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed when atreft* Fly by night. No£iua. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND ST NO NT MS. Firfl: wings, dark brown, with two large irregular fpots of whiteand reddifh colour, and a broad fpace of the fame next the exteriormargin: in feveral parts a fpeckling of fine blueifh green. Secondwings, and body, plain brown. Phal^nA OxYACANTifiE : criftata alis deflexis bimaculatis : mar- gine tenuiori coerulefcente; lunula Syji. Nat, 2. 852. 65.—Fn. Sv. Spec. Inf. 2. 232. 114.—Ent. SyJi. Tom. 3. pars. 2. p. 93. Verz. 70. Inf. I. phal. 2. tab. pap. 12. tab, i. c, I. The fS PLATE CLXV. The caterpillar of this fpecies is found on the White Thorn, inApril; in May it becomes a pupa : the moth does not appear beforeSeptember. It will be readily conje6lure(i, from its Englifli name^ to be morefrequently taken about Ealing^ in M
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