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 . .//J [ 77 ] PLATE CXXXVII. PHALINA Brass * GENERIC CHARACTER. Antenna? taper from the Bafe. Wings in general deflexed whenat reft. Fly by night. Noctua. Antennas of both fexes filiform. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND STNONTMS. Firft Wings brown
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 . .//J [ 77 ] PLATE CXXXVII. PHALINA Brass * GENERIC CHARACTER. Antenna? taper from the Bafe. Wings in general deflexed whenat reft. Fly by night. Noctua. Antennas of both fexes filiform. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND STNONTMS. Firft Wings brown, with two tranfverfe broad waves of greemfljgold on each. Second Wings blackifh grey. Wings margined. Phal^ena Chrysitis Linn. Syft. Nat. 2. 843. 126. Noctua criftata, alis deflexis orichalceis, margine fafciaque grifeis. Syji. Ent. 606. 69.—-Spec. Inf. 2. p. 226. 91. — feticornis fpirilinguis, alis deflexis ferrugineo fufcis, fafcia duplici tranfverfa viridi aurea. Geo/. Inf. 2. 149. antennis filiformibus, dorfo criftato, alis deflexis grifeis, fafciis duabus aureo viridibus. Degeer. Inf. Vers. Germ. 2. I. 31I. 2. Men an. Eur op. tab. 39. Alhin Inf. tab. 71. fig. a. h. c. d. Shorff. Icon. tab. 101. fig. 2. 3. M 2 The 78 PLATE CXXXVH. The pencil can produce but a feeble and inadequate
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