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 . [ 9 ] PLATE CXLVIII. PHAL^ENA POTATORIA, Drinker Moth, Lepidoptera. GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennae taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed whenat reft. Fly by night, Bombyx,Antennae, of the male feathered; female, like a br! file, SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYM?, Ye
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 . [ 9 ] PLATE CXLVIII. PHAL^ENA POTATORIA, Drinker Moth, Lepidoptera. GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennae taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed whenat reft. Fly by night, Bombyx,Antennae, of the male feathered; female, like a br! file, SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYM?, Yellow brown. Wings flightly fcalloped; on each of the upperwings an oblique line, and two white fpots near the anterior paler colour than the male, PhaLjENA Potatoria : alis reverfis fubdentatis flavis, ftriga fulva repandaque, punctis duobus albis.—Syfi. Ent. 564. maxima alis fulvo flavicantibus. Raj. Inf. 143. 3. Goed. Inf. 1. tab. 12. Sepp. Inf. 4. 37. tab. 8. Schaff. Icon. tab. 67. fig. 10. 11. 27. tab. 3. b. 2. B The 10 PLATE CXLVIII. The Caterpillars of this Infeft feed on grafs, they arc found inMay, and the Moth appears about the middle of June. The female differs in feveral refpe&s from the male; it is of abuff colour, and is generally, though not always, larger. The chr
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