THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH INSECTS VOL 09, DONOVAN

THE

NATURAL HISTORY
O

F

BRITISH INSECTS}
IN

EXPLAINING THEM
THEIR SEVERAL STATES,

WITH THE PERIODS oPtHEIR TRANSFORMATIONS,
THEIR FOOD, OECONOMY,

&c.

TOGETHER WITH THE

HISTORY OF SUCH MINUTE INSECTSAS REQUIRE INVESTIGATION BY THE MICROSCOPE.

THE WHOLE ILLUSTRATED BY

COLOURED FIGURES,
DESIGNED AND EXECUTED FROM LIVING SPECIMENS.

By

E.

DONOVAN
VOL.

IX.

LONDON:
trinted by bye and law,

st.

john's sqj7are, clerkxnwell,

For the Author,
And

for

St. Paul's
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PHALJENA MARGARITARIA.
LIGHT EMERALD MOTH.

LEP1DOPTEKA.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Antennae taper from the bafe
reft.

wings in general deflected when at

:

Fly by night.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER

AND

SYNONYMS.

Wings

angular, whitilh green with a deeper

band terminating

in

a

white ftreak.

PhaljEna Margaritaria.
Phaljena Margaritaria:

Linn.
alis

Inhabits England and

Its larva is defcribed

the

laft

Both

fegments:

:

tail bifid,

fexes of this

Moth

with the antennae larger or

in

and

Syji. 3. 131. 10.

woods, and feeds principally on

The Moth

the form

5. 865. 231.

Hiibn. Schmett Geom. 3. 13.

Germany

the Carpinus and Betula.

Nat.

Fab. Ent.

alba terminata.

Geometra Margaritaria.

Syji.

angulatis albidis: faturatiore ftriga

is

appears in July and Anguft

elongated, with

feet twelve in

two white dots on

number.

are reprefented in the annexed plate

more deeply pe&iuated

is

;

that

the male.

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FIG.

i.

PHAL^NA PAPILIONARIA.
Large Emerald Moth.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Antennae taper from the bafe.
at reft.

Wings

in general deflexed

when

Fly by night.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Antennae feathered.

Wings

green: a continued ftreak of whitifh

femicircular marks acrofs the middle of each, and an interrupted or
half ftreak of the fame colour

PhaLjENA Papilion aria
bus

:

:

below

it.

peftinicornis alis fubrepandis viridl-

ftriga fefquialtera

864. 225.

repanda.

Linn.

Syjl.

Nat. 2„

Fn. Sv. 1247.

Wien. Verz. 96.

1.

Roej. Inf. 4. tab. 18. Jig. 3.

A

rare and very elegant Britifh fpecies.

The

larva

is

green, with

m

It is found
about ten incurvated fpines or hooks along the back.
in

June,
changes
to
the pupa the
Alder
and
Birch
the
on
this ftate

latter

end of the fame month, and appears on the wing fourteen

days after.

The pupa

is

green variegated with yellow.

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FIG.

II.

PH ALPENA PENNARIA.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Antennae feathered

Wings

;

indented reddifh

:

two dark

flreakg

gcrofs the anterior pair, and a diftincl: white fpot near the apex.

PhaLjEN A Pennaria
ftrigis

:

pectinicornis

dnabus

alis

fubdentatis rufefcentibus

puncloque

fufcis

Linn. Syjl. Nat. 2. 861.

apicis albo.

209.— Fab.

Ent.

Syji.

3. p,

2. 132. 14.

The

larva

fmooth reddifh brown

FIG.

PHAL^NA

;

found on Fruit-trees

III.

B I LI

NEAT A.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Antennae fetaceous,

Wings yellow undulated with brown
and a broad wave acrofs the anterior pair.

Phal^naBilineata:

feticornis alis luteis teftaceo

undatis: fafcia

repaada, margine fufco.

245.

ftreaks,

Linn. S fi. Nat. 2. 868.
)L

Fn. Sv. 1284.

Clerk. Icon. lab. 6.
fig. 13.

Very abundant
c
Summer.

m

White-thorn hedges
during
""uiig molt
m^A part ofr
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PHAL1NA

P

INI ARIA.

Pine Moth.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Antennas taper from the bafe

:

wings in general deilecled when

Fly by night.

at reft.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND

SYNONYMS.
Antennae feathered
fpots

in

the

difk

:

upper

:

brown, with broad yellowifh

fide

beneath mottled, and clouded with two dark

bars acrofs the pofterior pair.

PhaLjENA PiniariA

peclinicornis

:

fubtus
Syjl.

nebulofis:

Nat.

2.

alis

fafciis

fufcis

flavo

duabus

maculatis

fufcis.

Linn.

861. 210.

Fn. Sv. 1233.
Fab. Ent.

Syjt. T. 3. p.

Clerk, phal. tab.

1. fig.

Zip.

141.^

45.

10.

Schceff. Icon. tab. 159. fig. I. 2.

This rare and curious fpecies of Phalaena has been

for fortte years

admitted in the cabinets of Englifh Natural Hiftory, but on the molt

dubious authority.

That

it

C

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an inhabitant of Great Britain,

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however now
about the

fir

wood

fliire,

Jaft

week

larva

the Pine.

in June,

it

fummer

was obferved

of the prefent year,
in great plenty in a

on the north bank of the river Dee, in MearnGeorge Milne, Efq. of Surrey Place, Walworth.

at Crathis,

Scotland, by

They feldom

The

ascertained, for in the

fly

is

low, and are consequently taken with fome difficulty.

green, ftreaked with white and yellow, and feeds

Linnaeus and Fabricius add the

Lime and Alder

alfo.

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