The natural history of British insects; explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, oeconomy, &ctogether with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microcsopeThe whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens . or indented : anterior pair with two white dots. j?H ALPENA Libatrix: criftata airs incumbentibus dentato erofirufo. grifeis: pun£lis duobusalbis.—Lin. Syfi. Nat. 7S.—-Fn. Sv. Ent. Syjl. 1. 3. p, 264. , Verz. 62, Inf. I. Inf.
The natural history of British insects; explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, oeconomy, &ctogether with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microcsopeThe whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens . or indented : anterior pair with two white dots. j?H ALPENA Libatrix: criftata airs incumbentibus dentato erofirufo. grifeis: pun£lis duobusalbis.—Lin. Syfi. Nat. 7S.—-Fn. Sv. Ent. Syjl. 1. 3. p, 264. , Verz. 62, Inf. I. Inf. I. tab. Inf. tab, 32. Jig. Icon. tab. £4. fig, 1. Inf. ,Harris Inf. tab. 1. fig. C. D,fod. Inf. 92. tab. 2. fig. 9, The 86 PLATE CCXVI. The Caterpillar of this Infeft is generally found under the barkof the willow and fallow, or on the rofe. It is probable there aretwo broods of it in the year, being fometimes taken in the wingedilate early in the fummer, but more commonly in the month ofOftober ; this is the more likely, as the Englifli Aurelians firft calledit the Herald, from an idea that its appearance warned them ofapproaching winter. This InfetT: remains about twenty-eight days in the pupa ftate, theCaterpillar not being found till the beginning of September. LINN^AN. >t 69 1 PLATE CCVIIL PHALiENA FIMBRIA. Broad-bordered yellow underwing Moth, Lepidoptera. GENERIC CHARACTER. Anteanae taper from the bafe: wings in general defle&ed when atjreft. Fly by night. i SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS, NOCTUA, Thorax crefted : anterior wings clay colour, marked with obfcurebands or ftreaks : poflerior pair reddifli orange, with a broad bar ofblack. ]£NA Fimbria: criftatata alis planis grifeo fafciatis; pofticishelvolis: macula lineari atra. Linn. Syjl. Nat. 123.—Fab. Ent. Syjl. T. 3,p. 2. 59. Verz. 87. , Inf. Jig. 9. This rare Infect is diftinguifhed from two very common fpeciesthat are allied to it,
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