. Natural history of the animal kingdom for the use of young people : in three parts, comprising I. Mammalia : II. Birds : Part III. Reptiles, amphibia, fishes, insects, worms, molluscs, zoophytes, &c. : with 91 coloured plates, including about 850 figures, and numerous additional illustrations in the text . -pillar is brownwith paler streaks,and is found inautumn on elder,lime, ivy &c. Epioiic apiciaria is yellowborder, and is not scarce insummer and autumn. The larvais greyish brown with fine longi-tudinal lines, and is found onwillows and poplars. Venilia macnlata, the Speckled Yellow, isgo
. Natural history of the animal kingdom for the use of young people : in three parts, comprising I. Mammalia : II. Birds : Part III. Reptiles, amphibia, fishes, insects, worms, molluscs, zoophytes, &c. : with 91 coloured plates, including about 850 figures, and numerous additional illustrations in the text . -pillar is brownwith paler streaks,and is found inautumn on elder,lime, ivy &c. Epioiic apiciaria is yellowborder, and is not scarce insummer and autumn. The larvais greyish brown with fine longi-tudinal lines, and is found onwillows and poplars. Venilia macnlata, the Speckled Yellow, isgolden yellow, with irregularblack spots. It is common inwoods in May and June. Thelarva is green, with a dark lineon the back, and feeds on dead-nettle and other low plants in autumn. Selenia ilhistraria is flesh-coloured, varied withpurplish-brown. It isfound in May and July,but is not very abun-dant. The larva is ofa colour resemblingbark; it is grey, withpaler and darker pro-minences. It is foundin June and September on sloe, oak, birch, rose & u. Pcricallia syriiigaria, the Beauty,has olive-grey wings, varied with violet-grey. Thefore wings are tinged with rusty-yellow, and thereis a large whitish mark on the costa. It is foundin gardens in July, but is not generally very com-. with
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