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 microcsope The whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens . .—Linn. Syjl. Nat. 2. 815. Sv. 1105. Fab. Ent. Syji. I. 429. Verzi 57. Inf. 1. phal. 2. tab. 62. The Caterpillars of the little Egger Moth, feed on black andwhite thorn, willow, lime-tree, &c. The female depofits a largeduller of eggs in 3
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 microcsope The whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens . .—Linn. Syjl. Nat. 2. 815. Sv. 1105. Fab. Ent. Syji. I. 429. Verzi 57. Inf. 1. phal. 2. tab. 62. The Caterpillars of the little Egger Moth, feed on black andwhite thorn, willow, lime-tree, &c. The female depofits a largeduller of eggs in 3 tuft of hair collected from her body. When thefe 74 PLATE CCX. thefe are hatched, the young begin to fpin a ftrong white web, whichthey enlarge as their fociety increafes; they remain together till theyhave devoured all the leaves of the plant on which they are hatched,or till they are arrived at full fize to change into the chryfalis ftate. Thefe Caterpillars are not very uncommon in fome parts of thecountry, efpecially in Kent. They are ready to change to chryfalisftate late in June. The Moth is not produced till April following. The trivial Englifh name, Egger Moth, is given to this, and twoor three other Moths, from the fimilitude of the cafe in which thechryfalis is inclofed to the fhape of an egg. PLATE son. C 41 3 PLATE CCCVIL PHAL^NA Moth. GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennas taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed when atreft. Fly by night. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND STNONTMS. Brown: an irregular pale ftreak acrofs the anterior pair, and afmaller one near the bafe. A fingle pale ftreak acrofs the pofteriorpair. Phal^na Populi : fufca antice pallida, alis reverfis fufcefcen-tibus : ftriga fefquialtera repanda albida. Linn* Syjl*Nat. 2. 818. 34.—Fn. Sv. 1101.—Fab. Ent. Syjl. T. 3. p. 2. p. 429. fp. Verz,. 58. Inf. I. phal. 2. tab. 60. We feldom meet with this interefting fpecies, for it is found bothin the larva and perfect ftate in the
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