Identifier: CUbiodiversity1123244-9682 (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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g entirely onaquatic plants, and is therefore fcarcely even met with, except in thewinged rlate, which it afliunes in May. The diflimilarity between thetwo fexes of this fpecies is altogether fo very remarkable, that it i*only from an intimate acquaintance with the manners of the two infedfcjin a rlate of nature, or the concurrent teftimony of many obferversthat we could be induced to believe them both of the fame fpecies. Fabricius, and Gmelin after him, fays, the larva is greenifh, hairywith whirls of black dots, and yellowim head. The figures in EfperT. 3. pi. 42, reprefent the larva of a cinereous colour, verticillated withblack dots, and tufts of ferruginous hairs. Other writers fpeak of thehead and tail being red. Tliofe different defcriptions may be eafily, how*ever, reconciled by prefuming thofe authors had each noticed the larvaat different periods of growth, or perhaps this diffimilarity may ferve topoint out the difference between the two fexes, even in the larvaHate. PLATE
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( 39 ) PLATE DLV. PHALiENA PHJEORRHCEA. BROWN TAIL MOTH. LEPIDOPTERA. GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennae taper from the bafe: wings in general deflected when atreft. Fly by night. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AM) SYNONYMS. White: rays of the antennae ferruginous: abdomen bearded andfufcous at the end. Phaljena Chrysorrhcea. var. Linn.? Brown-tail Moth. Curtis Hifl. Brown-tail, A. D. 1782. Phaljena PhjEorkikea. Marjh. Linn. Tranf. V. \.p. 68. In the defcription of the 10th plate of this work we had occafionto allude, in general terms, to an overfight committed by Linnaeus in«onfounding the Yellow and Brown tail Moths under the fame name as 40 PLATE DLV. as a fingle fpecies: the fubjea reprefented in that plate is the Yellow-tail, and the prefent feems requifite to complete the h,ftory of tholetwo apparently ambiguous infects. There is a diffimilarity, and that fo confiderable, between thofe twoinfefts, though at the mil view they may appear analogous, that, afterdue comparifon, it muft excite furprize

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