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 . are often reite-* rated in a fhort fpace. Fig. I. the head, expanded. Fig. 2. when ~—Fig. 3. the undulated edge. Adamses Ejfays on the Mkrofcope, Fig. 4. found in infufions of hay; and is called Trichoda Uvula. D2 PLATE [ ^^ ] PLATE P H A L ^ N A E V O N Y M E
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 . are often reite-* rated in a fhort fpace. Fig. I. the head, expanded. Fig. 2. when ~—Fig. 3. the undulated edge. Adamses Ejfays on the Mkrofcope, Fig. 4. found in infufions of hay; and is called Trichoda Uvula. D2 PLATE [ ^^ ] PLATE P H A L ^ N A E V O N Y M E L L A. Small Ee-mine GENERIC CHARACTER, ? Antennas taper like briftles. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Firft wings filver-white, with fifty fmall black fpots in wings lead-colour. Phalaena Evonymella fee<ds on the white-thorn, black-thorn, and onfruit-trees; in May the caterpillars are hatched, and as they live infocieties of hundreds, or even thoufands, by their united induftry theyflin a vv-eb fpacious enough to contain the family, and therein theyalTunie their feveral forms ; early in June they become chryfalides,and in about fourteen days the Flies are perfe(5l. The caterpillars of the Pha. Padella and Evonymella are ever in the fame fociety, and many circumftances may be advanced 4 to. PLATE IX. 23 to prove them either varieties of each other, or difFerence of fex only,although Linnseus confidered them as diftincSl fpecies. They differ incolour, the caterpillars of one being light yellow brown, the otherblack, and the upper wings of the Evonymella are lefs of a lead colourthan thofe of the Padella. To gain information on this fubje£l:, we, this feafon, put the eggsof feveral females into different glaffes; the eggs of each female pro-duced both kinds of caterpillars, they became chryfalides, and a num-ber of each fort of the Flies came forth. PLATE C 24 ] PLATE X. PHAL^NA CHRYSORRHOEA, Yellow Tail Moth. Lepidoptera. GENERIC tru
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