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 . t it neceffary, as they contain much good and ufefulmatter, to infert them. Then he proceeds with Bejchreibung DerenAnno 1747, &c. &c. or a defcription of the Locuft, as given in theImperial Edi6l, &c. In the courfe of which, and the defcriptionin page 145, we are 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 . t it neceffary, as they contain much good and ufefulmatter, to infert them. Then he proceeds with Bejchreibung DerenAnno 1747, &c. &c. or a defcription of the Locuft, as given in theImperial Edi6l, &c. In the courfe of which, and the defcriptionin page 145, we are informed, that this Locuft lives three female depofits her eggs in a kind of bag; the eggs are abouta quarter of an inch in length: of a flender oblong form, andplaced within the bag lengthwife, fo as to form four or five is moft advifed to dig for them in this ftate, and burn them ;or if they fhould alight in the winged ftate, as it is known that thenoife of bells, &c. will allure them to any particular fpot, it is re-commended to form deep ditches, and decoy, drive, or beat theminto the water in multitudes. * Under the feftlon Der HeuJchreEien und Grillenfammlung, Sec. &c. Vol. IT, p. 103*\ Referring to his plate 243 of Locusta Germanica and defcription of the Infeftsannexed. PLATE 7^. [ 53 ]PLATE CCLXXL PAPILIO HYPERANTHUS,Ringlet Butterfly. GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennas clubbed at the end. Wings eredl when at reft. Fiyhf day. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND STNONTMS. Wings entire, brown. Beneath, three eyes or rings on the an-terior, and five on the pofterior wings. PaPILIO Hyperanthus: alls integerrimis fufcis fubtus anticisocellis tribus, pofticis duobus tribufque. Linn. Syji,Nat. 2. 768. 127.—Fn. Sv. 1043.—Fab. Ent, SyJi,y. 216. y^. Inf. 2. tab. 2. fig. 9. Icon. fab. 12J. fig. I^ Pap. I. fab. 5. fig. 8. tab. 3. fig. D. The larva of this Butterfly is very rarely met with; it feeds onthe roots of grafs; is hairy, o
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