. 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. C ^5 3 PLATE LXXXII. PHALiENA USTULARIA. Early Thorn Moth. Lepidoptera. GENERIC CHARACTER, Antennse taper from the bafe. Wings in general contradled whenJit reft. Fly by night. * Geometra. Antennas of the male feathered j of the female fetaceous, or like a brirde.
. 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. C ^5 3 PLATE LXXXII. PHALiENA USTULARIA. Early Thorn Moth. Lepidoptera. GENERIC CHARACTER, Antennse taper from the bafe. Wings in general contradled whenJit reft. Fly by night. * Geometra. Antennas of the male feathered j of the female fetaceous, or like a brirde. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Wings angulated, indented, light brown varied with fliades of afcorched colour. Three waves of dark brown acrofs each fuperiorwing} together with a fpot of orange or bright brown colour, at thebafe, and another nearly of the fame colour on the exterior margin ofeach. Among the feveral Moths of the Geormtra divifion of Phalensewhich are known to the Tnglifh Colle6lors by the trivial Moths^ our prefent Infe6l is neither the moft confpicuous, orrare; it is however a beautiful creature when taken immediately fromthe Pupa cafe, but rarely fine, when caught in the fly ftate, in thefowling -net; the down being of fuch an exquifite texture that theflighteft touch muft inevitably damage its appea
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