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 . red and defcribed by Albin, and colleaors about the middleof the laft century occafionally met with it in the woods near Lon-don, which have been fince deftroyed. At that time it was howeverfcarce, and being difficult to rear, the Moth has always been deemedone of the m
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 . red and defcribed by Albin, and colleaors about the middleof the laft century occafionally met with it in the woods near Lon-don, which have been fince deftroyed. At that time it was howeverfcarce, and being difficult to rear, the Moth has always been deemedone of the mofl valuable Britifli fpecies of the Lepidoptera tribe. An old collector at Hoxton once informed us, that the larva of thisInfecl was called the Breeches Caterpillar about fifty years ago;that it was in great requefl by mofl collectors of his time, and thathe deemed himfelf fortunate in finding two fpecimens of it in thecourfe of his life, though he had not reared either. Thofe weretaken on fome Chefnut trees which grew at that time in St. Georgesfields. The late Mr. Bentley found it once on the Beech, and has a fpecimen of it in his cabinet, which he met withhimfelf. Our figures are copied from Francillons fpecimen,and the drawings Roefel has given of it in his Hiftory of the Infectsof Germany. PLATE. [ 9* ] PLATE CCCLIX. PHAL^NA TRITOPHUS,Aspen Prominent Moth. GENERIC CHARACTER Antennas taper from the bafe : wings in general deflefted wheaat red. Fly by Night. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Wings deflected, with a prominent tuft or tooth on the pofteriormargin ; colour brown, clouded, with a ferruginous lunar markfurrounded by a white ring in the middle. Phal/ENA Tritophus: aiis deflexis dorfo dentatis fufco nebu-lofis: lunula media ferruginea alba cin&a. Fab,Eni. Syft. T. 3. p. 108. The larva of this fine Infefl is green, with a brown head, obtufetail, and three elevations or gibbofities on the back. It feeds on thePopulo tremulo, from whence we have dedu
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