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 microcsopeThe whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens . the bafe. Wings in general deflexed whenat reft. Fly by night. * Noftua. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND STNONTMS. Thorax crefted. Wings deflexed: white, fafciated and fpotted withblack in a fomewhat quadrangular manner. Phal^na Abisinthii: crifta alis deflexis canis: faciis punc-
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 microcsopeThe whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens . the bafe. Wings in general deflexed whenat reft. Fly by night. * Noftua. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND STNONTMS. Thorax crefted. Wings deflexed: white, fafciated and fpotted withblack in a fomewhat quadrangular manner. Phal^na Abisinthii: crifta alis deflexis canis: faciis punc-tifque in tetragonum pofitis nigris. Linn. 2. 845. 133.—En. Sv. 1182. Fab. En/. 3. p. 2. p. 88.^.261. Phalasna Abifinthii is certainly an elegant fpecies, and particularlyinterefting as a native of this country. A few years fince it was veryhighly efteemed by collectors of Englifh natural hiftory, and at pre-fent it holds a diftinguifhed rank amongft the more valuable infedsof our cabinets. Has been found on fome wormwood in Bunhill-fields, about twenty years ago. D4 The 3$ PLATE CCCIV. The larva is beautifully variegated with red, and tender fhades ofgreen and yellow on a whiti/h ground; it feeds on the wormwood,and becomes a pupa within a cafe, or fpinning. Found in thewinged ftate in July. PLATE. C 63 ] PLATE persicarije. GENERIC CHARACTER. Antenna taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed whenat reft. Fly by night. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Thorax crefted, wings deflexed, dark and clouded. A whiteludney-ihaped fpot, with a yellow lunar pupil in the middle on each. Phal^ena Persicari^e: crifta alis deflexis fufco nebulofis: ftig-mate reniformi albo ; pupilla lunari flava. Nat. 2. 847. 142.—Fn. Suec. Inf. 2. 157. Inf. tab. Inf. L -phal. 2. tab. 30. A very common infect ; and is often obferved near fruit trees. PLATE ,57
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