Identifier: CUbiodiversity1123244-9683 (find matches)
Title: 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
Year: 1792 (1790s)
Authors: Donovan, E. (Edward), 1768-1837
Subjects: Insects Insects
Publisher: London, Printed for the author, and for F. & C. Rivington
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Mann Library, Cornell

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66 PLATE LXI. fize, are to be feen in almoft every cabinet; but that the fpecies fliouljhave efcaped the refearches of the moft eminent collectors, is ratheraftoni filing. We have fought every information which our connection wouldpermit; and from the refult we fcarcely hefitate to pronounce theinfect of a nondefcript fpecies, and our fpecimen to be perfectlyunique; at lead: it is a newly-difcovered acquisition to many fcientificentymologifts. The original, whence the figure has been copied, is in the collec-tion of the author; it was taken in a lane leading immediately fromthe wood at Tottenham, the la ft week in June, 1793. It was dis-covered in the evening, on a blade of grafs; and, from its wet ap-pearance, as well as exquifite prefervation, it had certainly juftemerged from its chryfalis. The Caterpillar may be fuppofed to be an underground feeder, andto fubfift on the roots of grafs, &c. or one of that kind which comes•nly above the furface of the earth in the night. PLATE
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( *3 )PLATE CCXCVIII. PHALiENA TRIPLACIA.Spectacle Moth. GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennas taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed whenat reft. Fly by night. * * Noflua. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Thorax crefted. Wings deflexed; firft pair greyifh, with a doubleferruginous arch; at the bafe, and another in an oppofite directionnear the apex. Phal^na Triplacia: critata alis deflexis; anticis arcu duplicicontrario maculifque tribus glaucis intermediis. Linn.Syji. Nat. 2.854. 175— Fn. Sv. 1202.Fab. Ent. Syji. T. 3. p. 2. 117. 354-Degeer. Inf. I. tab. 6. Jig. 20. 21.Men an. Eur op. tab. 97. This Infe£t is remarkable for a fanciful kind of marking thatencircles the eyes, and feems to refemble a pair of fpectacles. Itis found in the winged ftate the fourth week in June. PLATE

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