. 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. xcept that in the twofirft ftates they are apterous, or without wings, and either leap ofwalk; but in the laft ftate they are furnifhed with four membranaceous wings. The fubjedl of our prefent defcription is not an unfrequent fpeciesfieaf London j it is taken in t
. 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. xcept that in the twofirft ftates they are apterous, or without wings, and either leap ofwalk; but in the laft ftate they are furnifhed with four membranaceous wings. The fubjedl of our prefent defcription is not an unfrequent fpeciesfieaf London j it is taken in the perfect ftate in the month of Auguft. LOCUSTA VARIA. SPECIFIC CHARACTER, Antennae very long. Thorax gredn, with a longitudinal line ofyellow. Anterior wings membranaceous, green. Pofterior wingsvery delicate pale green. Body pale green, with the three laft jointspale black. Syjf. Enf. 287. ihalajjlna, &c. Degeer. Inf. 3. 433. Inf. 2. 142. Tab. Inf. 12. Tab. 2. Fig. Hiji. Inf Tab. 8. Fig. Varia^ Fab. Spec. Inf. i. 360. 25. It is very plenty in the month of Auguft, is concealed among thefoliage of the lower branches of the oak in the day-time, and is notoften obferved to fly except when the morning dew is on the herbage,or evening, approaches. Leaps, if difturbed. PLATE ^0. C 21 ] PLATE LXXX. PHAL^NA FULIGINOSA. Ruby-Tiger Moth. Lepidoptera* GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennje taper from the bafe. Wings, in general, contractedwhen at reft. Fly by night. * Spiral trunks j back faiooth without creft. SPECIFIC CHARACTER: Superior wings red brown; a black dot near the center of eachaInferior wings, rofe colour with black marks *. Abdomen, rofe co-lour with a chain of black fpots down the center, and a row of dotson each fide* Syji. Ent. 588. iii. Linn. Syji. Nat. 1. 836. 95.—Fn. Sv. 1159. Raj. Inf. 228. 13. Harr. Aurel. Tab. 12. Inf. Anglic. Tab. 8. Fig. 7. Ammir. Inf. Tab. 30. Roef. Inf. I. Phal, 2. Tab. 43. Wilk. Pap. Tab. 3. a. 14. ? Th
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