. 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 microscope : the whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens. out gny marks whatever. They feed on white thorn. Fig. I, 2. The Caterpillars. Fig. 3. Chryfalis. Fig. 4. Thefame magnified. Fig, 5. Moth. Natural fize. Fig* 6. The famemagnified. FIG. PLATE CLVII. 51 F I G. VII. PHAL^ENA S Q_U A M A N A. Green tufted, or Button Mo
. 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 microscope : the whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens. out gny marks whatever. They feed on white thorn. Fig. I, 2. The Caterpillars. Fig. 3. Chryfalis. Fig. 4. Thefame magnified. Fig, 5. Moth. Natural fize. Fig* 6. The famemagnified. FIG. PLATE CLVII. 51 F I G. VII. PHAL^ENA S Q_U A M A N A. Green tufted, or Button Moth. Lepidoptera. Phal^na. Tortrix Lin, SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND wings green, tufted all over. Inferior wings pale brown. Fhal. Pyralis Sq^amana : alis virefcentlbus fcabris. Fab. Syjl,Ent. 651. 36. Spec. Inf. 2. 284. 50. This is exceedingly rare. The upper wings are very curious,being entirely covered with tufts of feathers, of various fizes, fomcbrownifh, others inclining to white, but mofl: of them are green,which is the ground colour of the wings. Of its Larva we are en-tirely ignorant; nor can we derive any affiftance in that refpe£l fromentomological writers, as Fabricius only has defcribed the fays it is a native of England, and preferved in the cabinet ofMr. Monfon, Taken in June, PLATE i3A m iOi.
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