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 . moft birds, who eagerly devour them ; they are alfovictims to the Ichneumon fly, which deftroys them by myriad?, andit is fuppoftd the abfence of the latter, from fome unknown caufe,might have contributed, for one or two feafons, to their immenfeincreafe. The young cate
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 . moft birds, who eagerly devour them ; they are alfovictims to the Ichneumon fly, which deftroys them by myriad?, andit is fuppoftd the abfence of the latter, from fome unknown caufe,might have contributed, for one or two feafons, to their immenfeincreafe. The young caterpillars are hatched early in autumn. Asfoon as they quit the egg they begin fpinning the web, and havingformed a fmall one, they proceed to feed on the foliage by eating,like moft other larva?, the upper furface and flefhy part of the thefe webs, which are progrefiively increafed in iize as necef- y fib? PLATE DLV, 45 fity requires, they live in focieties till they attain their laft flcin,when each fpins a feparate web or cocoon for itfelf: in this itpartes to the pupa form about the beginning of May, and afterremaining a fhort lime the Moth is produced #. There is morethan one brood in a year, the fpecies being found in a winged inJuly and Auguft. * It remains in the chryfalis about three weeks. Curtis, PLATE. [ 73 1 PLATE DLXVIII. PHALiENA LUBRICIPEDA. SPOTTED BUFF MOTH. CHARACTER. Antennae taper from the bafe: wings in general defle&ed when atrest: fly by night. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Wings yellowifhj with black dots generally in an oblique tranfverferow. Phalena lubricipeda. Marjh. Linn. Tranf. T. I. p. 71. tab. lubricipeda. Linn. Fn. Sv. 1138. mas. Fabr. Sijji. Ent. 576. 68. The larva of this kind is hairy and browniflij with a lateral whiteftripe : it feeds on herbaceous plants, and is found in Auguft. Thefly appears in June. vol xvi. L PLAT Sfl
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