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 . GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennae tapering from the bafe : wings in general defleaed whehat reft. Fly by night. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Wings green-brown with two white fpots, the anterior one pupilla- ted, pofterior largefh i Phal-iENA Oleagina : alis viridibus fufco
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 . GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennae tapering from the bafe : wings in general defleaed whehat reft. Fly by night. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Wings green-brown with two white fpots, the anterior one pupilla- ted, pofterior largefh i Phal-iENA Oleagina : alis viridibus fufco fubundatis: maculisduabus albis anteriore pupillata; pofieriore majore*Wien. Schmetterl. p. 59. n. 2. Green Brindled Dot. Haw. Lep. Brit^p. \ 70, We accidentally met with an individual of this fpecies on the wingabout twilight one fummers evening * near Filhguard in Pembroke-shire, South Wales. It occurred among a number of other infefts ofthe No6tua and Bombyx families by the fide of the low hedges whichdivide the fields and meadows at a fliort diftance from the town,This is the only fpecimen we have feen Britifh. * In the mosth of July 1800, The H PLATE CCCCXXXIX. The larva, as defcribed by Fabricius, is quadridentated: behindcinereous with black and red indentations, and the collar red dottedwith black. PLATE. [ 43 ] PLATE CCCCLIILFIG, I. PHAUENA AUROSXGNATA, SCARCE PURPLE GOLDEN Y MOTH. LEPIDOPTERA. GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennae taper from the bafe ; wings in general deflected when atfed: fly by night, NoSlua,SPECIFIC CHARACTER. ^HALiENA aurosignata. Anterior wings purplifh varied withfufcous: in the middle a vermicular golden charac-ter irregularly lobate -*t one extremity. This ia an extremely fcarce, and we believe, undefcribed its general appearance this curious infea is nearly allied to theNoaua&interrogationis of Fabricius; it is as large as the Common YMoth (No8ua gamma) the anterior wings are tmged with purple,and the flexuous mark in the middle of ea
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