The natural history of British insects : explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, economy, &ctogether 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 . .^^1^^ C 71 1 PLATE XCIX. CHRYSOMELA BILITURALA. COLEOPTERA. Wings two, covered by two Ihells, divided by a longitudinalfuture. GENERIC CHARACTER, Antennae knotted, enlarging towards the end. Corfelet margined. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Antennae near the length of the body,
The natural history of British insects : explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, economy, &ctogether 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 . .^^1^^ C 71 1 PLATE XCIX. CHRYSOMELA BILITURALA. COLEOPTERA. Wings two, covered by two Ihells, divided by a longitudinalfuture. GENERIC CHARACTER, Antennae knotted, enlarging towards the end. Corfelet margined. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Antennae near the length of the body, black. Head, thorax, andunderfide, black. Shells red, inclining to yellow brown, with a broadlongitudinal black ftripe extending from the bafe, nearly to the extre-mity of each. This Infect Is defcribed in the manufcripts of T. A4arsham, Esq^S. L. s. who favoured me with the fpecimen from which the figure inthe annexed plate is copied j it does not appear to have been eitherfigured or defcribed in any preceding Natural Hiftory, and may there-fore be efteemed as a rare Infe£t. The fpecific name biliturala isadopted from that Gentlemans manufcripts by permiiTion. Is found on Hornbeam in May. IJ). C 75 3 PLATE C. PHALiENA CCERULEOCEPHALA. Figure of Eight Moth, CHARACTER. Antennae taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed whenti reft. Fly by night. SPECIFIC CHARACTER, Antennae feathered. Superior wings brown, marbled with blueiftigreen; the refemblance of a double figure of eight on each. Inferiorwings lighter with a brownifti fcallopped margin. Phal^na CoeRULEOCEPHALA elinguis criftata, alls deflexisgrifeis, ftigmatibus albidis coadunatis.—Linn. 2. 826. 59.—Fn. Sv. 1117. pHALiENA pe£linicornis elinguis, alis deflexis fufcis, macula du-plici albo flavefcente, geminata. Geoff. Inf. 2. 122. 27*Raj. Inf. 163. Inf. I. tab. Inf. i. tab, j8. fig. 6. Inf. I. phal 2. tab. Inf. 10. tab. >^. fig. Europ,
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