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 microcsope The whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens . a variety of gay colours,like thofe of the Papilio genus, an exception to a general rule inthe beautiful fpecies before us, more flrongly demands our male Phalasna Rufiula, which is known by the pectinated antennas,is of a fine golden yellow, with a rich, tho
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 microcsope The whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens . a variety of gay colours,like thofe of the Papilio genus, an exception to a general rule inthe beautiful fpecies before us, more flrongly demands our male Phalasna Rufiula, which is known by the pectinated antennas,is of a fine golden yellow, with a rich, though narrow marginal bandof fanguineous red round the wings. The female is a pretty Infect,but is more inclined to brown throughout than the male. G 4 This S2 PLATE CCXIV. This fpecies has been fuppofed to feed on grafs in the larva as colleaors have very rarely reared it irom that Hate, it hasbeen difficult to determine its proper food. Fabncius mentionslettuce and fcabious or devils-bit. The larva is hairy, and in manyrefpeas very much refembles that of the Garden Tiger Moth,from which we may perhaps infer that it is what colleaors ufuallyterm a general feeder. We found the larva in May; mortly after it fpun a web andpaffed into the pupa ftate, from which the moth was produced the11th of June following. PLATE. f 25 ] PLATE X. PHAL1NA AURIFLUA. Yellow Tail Moth. Lepidoptera. GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennas taper from the bafe : wings in general deflected when atreft. Fly by night. SPECIFIC CH4RACTER AND SYNONYMS. White ; extremity of the abdomen yellow. Bombyx auriflua : alis albis: prlmoribns fubtus cofta fufcaano barbato luteo. Fabr. Mant. Inf. 2. p. 145. PIIA L /E N A [Bombyx J C H R Y S O R R H CE A. Li mi. Svfi. Nat. S2SKSBBEH3 Linnaeus confounded the Yellow Tail Moth, with another kindknown among collectors of Englifh Infefts by the name of theBrown Tail Moth ; an infect which it may be recollected appearedin fuch prodigious numbers in the year 1780, as to fp
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