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 . lexisgrifeis, ftigmatibus albidis coadunatis.—£/»»• 2. 826. 59,—Fn. Sv. 111 J. pHALiENA peainicornis elinguis, alis deflexis fufcis, macula du-plici alboflavefcente, geminata. Geoff. Inf. 2. 122. 27-Raj. Inf. 163. Inf. 1. tab. Inf. I. tab. 1
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 . lexisgrifeis, ftigmatibus albidis coadunatis.—£/»»• 2. 826. 59,—Fn. Sv. 111 J. pHALiENA peainicornis elinguis, alis deflexis fufcis, macula du-plici alboflavefcente, geminata. Geoff. Inf. 2. 122. 27-Raj. Inf. 163. Inf. 1. tab. Inf. I. tab. 18. fig. 6. Inf. I. phal. 2. tab. Inf. 10. tab, 3, fig. Eur op. tab. , Inf. tab. 13. fig. Pap. 6. tab. I. a Aurel. pi. 30. «• £. *• </•«. %<\ Inf. 2. 184. 72. N Th? 76 P L A T E C. The Caterpillars of this fpecies are found in their laft fkin aboutthe latter end of May, or early in June; they change into chryfalis afew days after. The Moth is produced in Auguft. In the Caterpillar ftate they are met with in great plenty, either onthe crab tree, black thorn, or white thorn; but are not fo abundantin the laft ftate, as many perifli when in chryfalis, They change into chryfalis within a hard cafe, which they fallen tothe fmall flems of trees. PLATE. \ * C 9 ] P L A T E LXXVL PHAL^ENA FUNALIS, Festoon Moth. Lepidoptera. GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennse taper from the bafe. Wings, when at reft, generallyContra&ech Fly by night. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Upper wings orange, rather inclining to brown ; with a black linenearly of a triangular form on each; when the wings are expandedthe lines referable a feftoon. Under wings orange, clouded andfrofted with black j margin pale* We are happy to prefent our Subfcribers with the figure of a MothWhich is fcarcely known among the Englifh Colledors, and we mayventure to affert on the beft authority has not a place in any cabinetof Infeds in this metropolis, except that of the Au
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