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 . C 33 ] « PLATE XIV. TRICHODA POCILLUM. invifible, pellucid, hairy worm. SPECIFIC CHARACTER, Oblong trichoda, the fore-part truncated and hairy, the tail articu-lated, and divided into two briftles. This invifible animalculum is common in marfliy places, p
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 . C 33 ] « PLATE XIV. TRICHODA POCILLUM. invifible, pellucid, hairy worm. SPECIFIC CHARACTER, Oblong trichoda, the fore-part truncated and hairy, the tail articu-lated, and divided into two briftles. This invifible animalculum is common in marfliy places, particu-larly in the fwamps near the banks of the river Thames. When magnified, the body is pellucid, and appears as two feparatebodies, one enclofmg the other; the interior part is filled with mole-cules, and the exterior is membranaceous: they are capable of exten-fion or dilation, and of folding in various directions. At the extre-mity of the interior part is a mufcular orbicular membrane, which isopened or ftiut at pleafure, and forms the mouth. Fig. I. The interior part protruded with the mouth 2. The jaws ftiut. F 2 PLATE 15. C 35 ] PLATE XV. PHALJENA CAJA, Great Tyger Moth,Lepidoptera. GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennas taper from the bafe. No trunk. Wings depreffed, de^Pexed. Back fmooth. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Antennse feathered. Firft wings whitifh, with large irregular darkfjrown fpots. Abdomen and fecond wings orange, with black fpots. The fuperior wings in feme of this fpecies have fmaller brownipots, and more of the cream colour; in others the fpots are larger/andfrequently two are united to form one. The inferior wings alfo admitpf equal variety; the fpots near the thorax are often united, and thefmall black ftripes on the back are fewer in the prefent fpecimen thanare common to the Moth, The 36 PLATE XV. The caterpillars feed on lettucesj or nettles. When he is appre-benfive of danger, he rolis himfelf up like a hedge-hog. He be-comes a chryfalis in May; and the
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