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 . [ 79 1 PLATE CCXIII. PHAL^NA GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennas taper from the bafe: wings in general defle£led when atreft. Fly by night. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND NOCTUA. Thorax crefted : wings deflected: anterior pair am*eolour withtwo fpots, and a
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 . [ 79 1 PLATE CCXIII. PHAL^NA GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennas taper from the bafe: wings in general defle£led when atreft. Fly by night. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND NOCTUA. Thorax crefted : wings deflected: anterior pair am*eolour withtwo fpots, and a fhort dam of red behind. PhaLjENA PrjECOx: criftata alls deflexis cineris bimaculatis: pof-ticis fafcia rufa abbreviata.—Linn. Syjl. Nat. 2. 854»174.—Fab. Ent. Syji. I. 2. p, 2. 97. Inf. 1. phal. 2. tab. 51. When the late Duchefs of Portland honoured the fcientific aswell as praQical part of Entomology with her patronage, her Gracedifcovered, and reared from the Caterpillar Mate, feveral fpecies of thePhalaena tribe, not before known as natives of this country; andamong the number of thofe may be enumerated this elegant brood was found in one of the Portland ifles. G S Fabricius 80 PLATE CCXIII. Pabricius fays the larva feeds on the thiitle. The rarity of thiscreature induced us tor depart
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