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 microscope : the whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens . wings green, with three oblique white, or filvery ftripesacrofs each. Antennas and feet fulvous. Pyralis Fagana : alis vlridibus: ftrigis tribus obliquis albis,antennis pedibufque fulvis. Fab. Ent. Syji. 3. p. 2. 243- 5-|*halasna Fagana. fVien. Verz. 125. 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 microscope : the whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens . wings green, with three oblique white, or filvery ftripesacrofs each. Antennas and feet fulvous. Pyralis Fagana : alis vlridibus: ftrigis tribus obliquis albis,antennis pedibufque fulvis. Fab. Ent. Syji. 3. p. 2. 243- 5-|*halasna Fagana. fVien. Verz. 125. Inf. 4. tab. Gazoph. tab. Jfig Inf. tab, 2. fig. Inf. tab. I. tab. I. «. 13. The Phalasna Fagana is not one of the rarer Britifh fpecies; itclaims attention for its lingular and beautiful appearance larva is found on the oak in Auguft and September : in the beginning 74 P L A T;E CC^XXXI. beginning of Oftober, it fpins a very extraordinary kind of coveringon a leaf of the oak, and becomes a pupa within. This coveringfomev^rhat refembles a tent, or rather an inverted boat, being fhuttleformed, and having a keel, or longitudinal ridge along the upperpart: its colour is yellowifli brown ; the pupa underneath is Moth appears in the winged ftate in May PL AT E HA CA,. [ 75 ] PLATE CCLXXXIL BUPRESTIS PYGMEA. COLEOPTERA. GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennas fetaceous, length of the thorax. Head half retraced,or drawn within the thorax. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AUD STNONTMS. Wing cafes blue. Head and thorax brown, bronzed. BuPRESTis Pygmea: elytris integris cyaneis, capite thoracequeaeneis nitidis. FaL Ent. Syji. 2. /. 211. Sp. iio. The difcovery of this minute but rare fpecies of Bupreftis in this country, is due to Alexander MLeay, Efq. It was found in a puddle, on the road fide, near Coombe Wood, in the month of Maylaft. The fpecimen is reprefented in the annexed plate; thefmallefl figure denotes the Jiatural fize. PLATE TY C. 2r?3
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