The natural history of British insects : explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, economy, &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 . SPECIFIC CHAPACr^R. Body and under Wings white, firft Wings green, with two obliquearrow lines of pale yellow. We poflefs two fpecies of the Green Silver Line; one PhalaenaPrafinana, of Linnseus; the fecond unknown to that author; but fincedefcribed in the Species Inf
The natural history of British insects : explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, economy, &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 . SPECIFIC CHAPACr^R. Body and under Wings white, firft Wings green, with two obliquearrow lines of pale yellow. We poflefs two fpecies of the Green Silver Line; one PhalaenaPrafinana, of Linnseus; the fecond unknown to that author; but fincedefcribed in the Species InfeSiormn of Fabricms. Thofe two referable each other, are both taken from the Oak, and arcdiftinguiflied only in fome few particulars, the Scarce Silver Line hasits Superior Wings of a plain pea-green, with two ftripes of feintyellow, the Body and inferior Wings are of an immaculate the Common Silver Line is more variegated in its colour, having?a dalli of a paler hue between each Silver Line, and an orange orcrimfon border. The Scarce Silver Line is taken in July, in woods. Note, Fabricius appears to have changed the name of this Infeit inhis Spec Inf. for in the Syjiem Ento?n. he calls the common SilverLine Prafmana, the fame as Linnaeus does, which in the Spec he hasaltered to Fagana. P LATE.
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