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 . I 67 ] PLATE CLXIIL PHAL^NA DISPAR. Gipsey GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennas taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexecj when at reft. Fly by night. CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Female, yellowifh white with dark tranfverfe zigzac lines acrol$t
The natural history of British insects; explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, oeconomy, &c together with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microcsope The whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens . I 67 ] PLATE CLXIIL PHAL^NA DISPAR. Gipsey GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennas taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexecj when at reft. Fly by night. CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Female, yellowifh white with dark tranfverfe zigzac lines acrol$the upper wings. Male, fmaller, dark brown, with lines and wavesof black. Phal^EN A DI spar : alis deflexis mafculis grifeo fufcoque nebulofis,foemineis albidis: lituris nigris. Lin. Sy/i. Nat. 2. Spec. Inf. 2. 182. 6G.—Sy/l. Ent. 3. pars. 1. 457. Inf. 2. tab. Inf. 2. tab. I;.fig. 11. an. Eur op. 1. tab. Inf. 3. 14. tab. Icon. tab. 28. fig. 3— Inf. 2, 112, 14. That 68 PLATE CLXIII. That die Phalaena Difparwas not uncommonly fcarce about fifteenyears ago, is evident from this circumftance, few collections ofBritifh infefts, that were in the hands of eminent collector^ arewithout an Englifh fpecimen, which was procured about that time;and Harris
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