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 microscope : the whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens . odies of birds, and more efpecially on fwallows. Thefe creatures are all of adifgufting form, flat, and hard: they adhere very tenacioufly bymeans of the nails or crotchets of their talons, which in this genusare numerous; and are not eafily killed by pref
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 microscope : the whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens . odies of birds, and more efpecially on fwallows. Thefe creatures are all of adifgufting form, flat, and hard: they adhere very tenacioufly bymeans of the nails or crotchets of their talons, which in this genusare numerous; and are not eafily killed by preffure. The has three fharp incurvated nails to each foot, the H. hirun-dinis is furnifhed with twice that number on each. F I G. 11. HIPPO BOSCA AVICULARIA. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND STNONTMS,Wings obtufe. Thorax without fpots, and of one colour. * Hippobofca uralenfis: atra hirfuta dorfo ordinibus tribus veficularum albarumixitentium. Lepechin it. 1. t. 19. f. 9. habitat in dejerto Uraknft, HiPPOBOSCA PLATE CCLXI. 25 fijppoBOSCA AvicuLARiA, alis obtufis, thorace unicolore. Nat. 2. loio. 2,—Fn. Sy. J922.—iv?^. Ent. 415. 2. The figure of Hippobofca avicularia in the works of Sulzer nearlyagrees with our infe6l, except in colour ; it is of a dull brown, withlefs of the green caft. C2 PLATE [ 25 ] PLATE CCLXII. FIG. I. L PHAL^NA ATRIPLICIS. Wild arrach Moth. Lepidoptera. GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennas taper from the bafe, wings in general deflexed when atreft. Fly by night, SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND s r N o N r M s. Thorax crefted, anterior wings, brown, clouded and marked withundulated ftreaks, and a two-cleft or forked yellow mark in themiddle. Phal^na Atriplicis, criftata alis deflexis: anticis fufco nebu-lofis; litura media flava bifida. Lin. Syji. ,^854. 173. Fab. Ent. Syji. T. 95. fp. Ivf. 2. tab. 31, This fpecies is noticed by Harris and BerkenhoUt, as a native ofGreat Britain, under the trivial name of PFild arrach
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