Identifier: naturalhistoryof899dono (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 microscope : the whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens
Year: 1799 (1790s)
Authors: Donovan, E. (Edward), 1768-1837
Subjects: Insects
Publisher: London : Printed for the author, and for F. and C. Rivington
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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ANTHUS,Ringlet Butterfly. GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennas clubbed at the end. Wings eredl when at reft. Fiyhf day. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND STNONTMS. Wings entire, brown. Beneath, three eyes or rings on the an-terior, and five on the pofterior wings. PaPILIO Hyperanthus: alls integerrimis fufcis fubtus anticisocellis tribus, pofticis duobus tribufque. Linn. Syji,Nat. 2. 768. 127.—Fn. Sv. 1043.—Fab. Ent, SyJi,y. 3./. I./. 216. y^. 677.Degeer. Inf. 2. tab. 2. fig. 9. lo.Schaff. Icon. fab. 12J. fig. I^ 2.Efp. Pap. I. fab. 5. fig. I.Naturf. 8. tab. 3. fig. D. The larva of this Butterfly is very rarely met with; it feeds onthe roots of grafs; is hairy, of an afh colour, with a black linedown the fide, and the tail forked. The pupa is gibjbous, brown,and fpotted with yellOw. Papilip 54 P L A T E CCLXXI. Papilio Hyperanthus is found in the winged ftate in June andJuly. It frequents lanes, and hedges on dry and elevated banks,fuch as are conaraon in the fandy and chalky foils of Kent, PLATE ^7-
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( 5^5 ) PLATE CCLXXIL PHALiENA FURCULA. Kitten Moth. GENERIC CHARACTER. Antennae taper from the bafe. Wings in general deflexed when^t reft. Fly by night. BoMBYX. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND ST NO NT MS. Thorax variegated. Anterior wings grey, fprinkled with black :bafe and apex white, with black fpots. Pofterior wings white, witlia marginal row of black points. Phal.^na Furcula : thorace variegato, alis grifeis bafi apicequealbis nigro pundatis. Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 823. 51.—- Fn. Sv. 1122.—FaL Ent. Syji. T. y p. i. 475.7^. 213.Panx. Faun, Inf. Germ. 4. tab. 20.Wilh.fap. 13. tab. i. fig. I.Sepp. Inf. 4. 29. tab. 6. Phalsna Furcula is a neat and interefting Britifh Infeft. Exceptin fize it is very iimilar to Phalaina Vinula; and the Aurelians, fromthis fimilarity, and a fanciful reference to the brindled appearance of S^ PLATE* CCLXXII. ef the anterior wings, have whimfically, but not inaptly, given theirEnglifli trivial names: Phalsna Vinula, being the largeft, is calledthe Pufs Moth;

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