. 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. ^. t ^3 3 PLATE LXXVII. FIG. I. and FIG. II. PHALiENA CRISTALANA. Dark-button * GENERIC CHARACTER, Antennas taper from the bafe. Wings, In general contrailed whenat reft. Fly by night. TORTRIX. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Upper wings yellow-brown, with dark
. 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. ^. t ^3 3 PLATE LXXVII. FIG. I. and FIG. II. PHALiENA CRISTALANA. Dark-button * GENERIC CHARACTER, Antennas taper from the bafe. Wings, In general contrailed whenat reft. Fly by night. TORTRIX. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Upper wings yellow-brown, with dark fliades; a broad irregularwhite mark, and a tuft or button, on the center of each. Head and^horax white clouded. Lower wings pale brown. This fingular Moth is very rarely met with; it has been taken inCoombe-wood^ Siirry^ and in Kent^ but even in thofe places it is veryuncommon. It is diftinguiflied by the unufual forjn of the white markings on theupper wings, and particularly by the tuft or button which is fituatedin an upright pofition near the center of each; thofe tufts appear onlyfiightly feathered on the upper parts to the naked eye, but when oneof them is examined with a microfcope, or even common magnifier,it prefents the appearance of a bundle of fibres, inclofed within a thinmembrane; narrow at the bafe, encreafing i
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