. 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. E n 3 PLATE DX, FIG. I. PHAL^ENA OMICRONATA. O-O CARPET GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennae gradually tapering from the bafe : tongue fpiral: wingsin general deflected when at reft. Fly by night. * CHARACTER. PHALffiNA Omicronata. Firft w
. 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. E n 3 PLATE DX, FIG. I. PHAL^ENA OMICRONATA. O-O CARPET GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennae gradually tapering from the bafe : tongue fpiral: wingsin general deflected when at reft. Fly by night. * CHARACTER. PHALffiNA Omicronata. Firft wings fulvous at the bafe andtip, with fufcous ftreaks and dots : in the middlea broad indented cinereous band with a double Onearer the anterior margin. An elegant and not very frequent fpecies found in the vicinity ofwoods in the month of June, July and Auguft. c % HG. 12 PLATE DX. FIG. CONTRISTATA. COMMON CARPET MOTH. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Phal^na contristata. White with a common fufcous border ;anterior wings brownifh at the bafe, the middlewith a fufcous band : difk of the pofterior pairwith dufky ftreaks. PhaljENA contristata. Marjh. M. S. Common in the months of May and June in moft woodyfiliations. It is very abundant, in particular near London. PLATE Si 7. t M ] PLATE DXVIL PHALiENA INSCRIPTATA, LETTERED GENERIC CHARACTER. i Anterinae taper from the bafe: tongue fpiral; wings in generaldeflected when at reft. Fly by night. * * * Geometra* SPECIFIC CHARACTER. PHALiENA inscriptata. Pale, anterior wings banded andlineated: with two dufky characters, and a whitifhA in the difk of the middle band : posterior wingswith fcalloped lines. The two moths repfefented in this plate, are beyond difpute, varie-ties of the fame fpecies, that delineated in the upper part of the platediffering only in having the anterior wings and bands darker thanthe other: the chara6ters on both are the fame, being two fmalldufky letter-like marks, one of which remotely refe
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