Identifier: naturalhistoryo03dono (find matches)
Title: The natural history of British insects : explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, economy, &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
Year: 1792 (1790s)
Authors: Donovan, E. (Edward), 1768-1837 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS Tippmann Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS
Subjects: Insects
Publisher: London : Printed by D. Bye and H. Law, St. John's Square Clerkenwell for the Author, and for F. and C. Rivington no. 62, St. Paul's Church-Yard
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s. Second wings fhorteft. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Antennae ckivated. Abdomen above black, very hairy, with alateral line of rufous. Legs yellovvi(h. Thighs behind dentated. T. V. Antennis clavatis, abdomine fupra nigro, lateribus rufis, femo-ribus pofticis dcntatis. Syjl. Ent. 318. 6. T. V. Antennis clavatis, ore elabiato, abdomine rufo dorfo nigro,femoribus pofticis dentatis. Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 921. 5.—Fn. Sv. 1535.Strcem. Surulm. i-)i. Tab. 10. Fig. ii. Vanet?;i triple m.nor, vix diftindta, H 2 Larva 44 PLATE LXXXVIII. Larva virefcens per apcrturam ante anum tanquam e fiphonc aquartiexfpuit. Fabncius. Spec. Inf. i. 407. 7. The Larva of this fpecies is found on the Alder, Ofier and Wiilow;it is large, of a green colour, and at firft fight, greatly refembles theCaterpillars of fome Lepidopterous Infeds. When it firfl appears from the ChryGilis very little of the black ofthe Thorax and Abdomen can be feen, thofe parts being at that timethickly cloathed with long brownifh hairs. PLATE 3^
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C 4S 3 PLATE LXXXIX. PAPILIO ANTIOPA. Camberwell Beauty. Lepidoptera. GENERIC CHARACTER, Antennas clavated. Wings, when at reft, ereil. Fly in the daytime, SPECIFIC CHARACTER, Wings angulated, rich purple-brown, with a pale yellow externalborder; and an intermediate darlc border, with a row of bluifh eyes ;on the anterior margin of the firft v/ings two long yellowifli fpots. ——Alis angulatis nlgris, limbo alblda. Linn, Syft. Nat. i. 776. 165,—Fn. Sv. 1056.Geof Inf. 2. 35. I. Papllio maxima nigra, alis utrlfque limbo lato albo cinftis.Raj. Inf. 135. 136.Jonfi. Inf. t. g. ^ II.Schceff. Elem. Tab. 94. Fig. T. • Icon. Tab. 70. Fig. i. ^ 2. Sul%. Inf I. Tab. 14. Fig. 85.Roef Inf I. Paf. 1. Tab. i.Efp. Pap. I. Tab. 12. Fig. 2.Seb. Muf 4. Tab. 32. Fig. i, 2.Bergfirafs. 1. Tab. 39. Fig. i. 2. 3. 4.Wilk. Pap. 58. Tab. 2. a. 10.Vegeer. Inf. i. Tab. 21. Fig. 8. 9. The 46 PLATE LXXXIX. The Papilio Antiopa is found in every part of Europe; in Germanyparticularly it is very common; it is as

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