The natural history of British insects : explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, economy, &ctogether 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 . ance; we cannot elfe account for thediilimi arity that prevails among all the coloured reprefentations of theInfe6l in that ftate that have come under our infpedlion ; in RoefelsHift. Inf. we find a figure of the Caterpillar apparently in the lafl fkin. * 1778. •{? It
The natural history of British insects : explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, economy, &ctogether 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 . ance; we cannot elfe account for thediilimi arity that prevails among all the coloured reprefentations of theInfe6l in that ftate that have come under our infpedlion ; in RoefelsHift. Inf. we find a figure of the Caterpillar apparently in the lafl fkin. * 1778. •{? It feeds on plants of the Euphorbia genus, as its fpecifie name indicates. that PLATE XCI.—XCII. 53 that very nearly correfponds with our fpecimen; but that figured byHarris does not agree with either, in the form or number of the an early ftage of its growth the Caterpillar, according to RoeleJ,is bright yellow, with black patches, and minute v/hite fpecks. The figure in plate XCII. is copied from a moft perfe6l fpecimenof the Caterpillar, and which is now in our pol^eflion ; but as wecannot afllire our Subfcribers that it was found in England-^ we havebeen careful to add it in a feparate plate, that fo it may either be in-cluded in the volume with the Sphinx and Pupa, or be excluded witipropriety. K 2 PLATE.
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