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 . PLATE XVI. The Caterpillars feed on white thorn, and on fruit trees in have been known to live on the deadly night-fhade, and otherpoifonous plants. The fpecies is found in the Caterpillar Hate inJuly, and the Moth in September. PLATE. [ S9 3 PLATE CCLXXIV;
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 . PLATE XVI. The Caterpillars feed on white thorn, and on fruit trees in have been known to live on the deadly night-fhade, and otherpoifonous plants. The fpecies is found in the Caterpillar Hate inJuly, and the Moth in September. PLATE. [ S9 3 PLATE CCLXXIV; FIG. I. II. PHAL^ENA humuli,Ghost MoTti. GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennae taper from the bafe: wings in general defle&ed when atreft. Fly by night. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND yellow, with fulvous marks. Male fnowy white. PhaljENA Humuli : alis flavis fulvo ftriatis maris niveis. Linn*Syji. Nat. 2. Si3. £4>.—Fn. Sv. 1147. Hepialus Humuli: tab. Ent. S. p. fp. , Inf. 1. fig. 5, Hifl. Inf. tab. 22. Jig. 1. The male and female of Phalana Humuli are very dimmilar, andmay eafily be miftaken for diftina fpecies. The male is perfeaiywhite, with a glofs like fatin, the abdomen, antennas, and margin ofthe wings excepted, for thefe are reddifh brown. The female is of afine yellow colour, with feveral fulvous or orange marks ; and isfomewhat larger than the other fex. The larva lives in the earth, at the roots of the Burdock and is of a very pale or whitilh colour, with a brown head, and hasfixteen feet. fs no. 60 PLCUbiodiversity1123244-9682
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