THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH INSECTS VOL 10, DONOVAN

THE

NATURAL HISTORY
O F

BRITISH INSECTS;
EXPLAINING THEM
IN THEIR SEVERAL STATES,
WITH

THE

PERIODS

THEIR

OF

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.

By

E.

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DONOVAN.
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PHAL^ENA GRAMMICA.
FEATHERED FOOTMAN MOTH.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Antennae tapering from the bafe
at reft.

:

wings

when

in general deflected

Fly by night.

JBombyx.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND

•
,

SYNONYMS.

Wings pale yellow

:

anterior pair yellow filiated with black

;

lower

ones with a black terminal band.

Phal^ena Grammica

:

alis Inteis

poilerioribus

Suec.

primoribus
terminali

ll34.—Amoen. acad.

Fabr. fp.
f. A. D.
icon.

:

falcia

t.

inf. 2. p.

5.

flavis

nigra.
t.

3.f

\QQ. n. 113.

nigro

/

2.

Ray

Fn.

31.

Roef.4.

Geoff?-, inf. p. 2. p. 115. n. 17.

92.

ftriatis.,

Linn.

Inf. p. l6g. n. 23.

t.

21.

Schctff.

and p.

280. n. 13.

We

introduce this elegant fpecies of the

Moth

tribe

among

the in-

fers of Great Britain upon the moil fatisfatiory authority, having
our»


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ourfelves

met with

a living

fome few years ago.

A T B CCCCL.
fpecimen of

it

in the

Aland of Anglefea

month

This occurred in the day time, in the

September, under the

fliade

of a

little

duller of itones and

bullies

near Manachty, the northern extremity of the ifland, and at no great
tance from the road to

It

is

not entirely

Ray, but

of

dif-

Gwyndy.

new

as an Englifli infect, having

been defcribed

by

the only inftance within our recollection, fince the time

this is

which any

have meet with

of that writer,

in

our country.

In Germany, and feveral others parts of Europe

naturalift

is

faid to

it

iri

it is

not very unfrequent.

The

fpecimen discovered by us

prefented
is

ii.

the

of the female kind, which

from an exotic fpecimen
ous

infect, the tw

is

of the male fex, and

upper part of the annexed

we have

is

that re-

The lower

plate.

figure

ventured to add, though taken

in order to illultrate the hiftory of this curn

o iexes of which differ fo materially that they might

readily be miftaken for diftinct fpecies.

It rarely occurs to obfervation in the larva ftate

pofed to feed on the afh, while others affirm that
plaintain.
legs.

The

The pupa

larva

is

brown with a white

:

its

by fome

it is

natural food

dorfal iine,

fup-

is

the

and rufous

ferruginous.

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PHALENA QUADRA.

Spotted Footman Moth.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Antennas taper from the bafe.
reft.

Wings

general deficxed

in

when

at

Fly by night.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND
s

Thorax fmooth.
fpots

on the anterior

rn o nr

Wings

m

s.

deprelTed, yellow, with

two dark blue

luteis:

anticis punclis

pair.

Phal^ena Quadra
duobus

lasvis

:

— Fab. Ent.
Schaff.

Syjl.

depreffis

alis

Linn

cyaneis.

T.

S)>Jl.

3. p. 2. p.

Elem. tab. 98.

Nat.

84.0.

1.

14.

24-fp. 54-

fig. 5.

RoeJ. Inf. i.phal. 2. tab. 17.

The

larva

of this fpecies rarely occurs, and the winged Infect

not common.

Linnaeus has taken his specific character of this

from the four blue fpots on the anterior wings
fary to obferve, that the

neoufly been

made

wasdeftitute of

:

it

is

is

Moth

therefore necef-

other fex has no fuch- fpots, and has erro-

a diftincl: fpecies by the

them.— Found

in the

winged

fame author, becaufe
ftatein

May

it

and June.

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PHAL^NA

DLVI.

VERTICALIS.

MOTHER-OF-PEARL MOTH.
LEPJDOPTE11A.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Antennas taper from the bafe

:

wings in general defle&ed when at

Fly by night.

reft.

* Sedion Pyralis.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER

AND

SYNONYMS.

Wings glabrous pale and fomewhat

fafciated

:

beneath waved with

fufcous.

Phal^na Verticalis:

glabris

alis

fufco undatis.

pallidis fubfafciatis,

Linn. Fn. Suec. 1353.

fubtus

GmeL

2522. 335.
Phalaena Verticalis.

Fabr. Sp. Inf. 2. p. 272. n. ISO.— Mant. Inf.
2. p. 219. n.

Geoffr. inf.

Abundant
ilate

mon
Jaft

:

in the

month of

285.

Par.

July,

2.

p. 166. n. 112.

when

it

appears in the winged

the larva, which

is

of a delicate green colour, feeds on the com-

pupa

is

diftinguifhed by having each of the three

nettle

:

the

fegments armed

or furnilhed with a tooth-like procefs.

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CCCXXXIX.

PHAL/ENA SULPHURALIS.
Margate Beauty.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Antennae taper from the bafe
{it

reft.

:

wings

in general deflected

when

Fly by night.

SPECIFIC

CHARACTER
AND

SYNONYMS.
wings yellow, with irregular connected ftreaks of black
and detached marks of the fame colour on the anterior margin

Firfl;

fpots,

fecond pair brown.

Phalasna Sulphuralis.

Linn. Syjl. Nat. 2. 881. 333.

Bombyx Lugubris

:

alis

deflexis flavis

:

rivulis punflifque atris,

Fab. Ent.SyJl. T. 3. p.

pofticis fufcis.

I.

p. 467.

/p. lS8.Scbaffi Icon. tab. 9. fig. 14, 15.

A fcarce
covered

at

infect in this country.

Margate,

known amongft
Another

infeft,

and from

It is

that

by no means

fimilar,
at

have been

circumftance was

Englifh collectors by the

fame name, having been met with

faid to

name

has

firft

dif-

afterwards

of Margate Beauty.

—

however received the

Margate likewife.

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II.

PHAL^NA PURPURALIS,
Purple and Gold Moth.

CHARACTER

SPECIFIC

i

AND

SYNONYMS.
Purple, with

two

irregular yellow bands continued acrofs both the

upper and under wings.

PHALiENA Purpuralis:
duabus

alls

purpurafcentibus

Linn.

Syjl.

nettles in

May.

luteis.

:

omnibus

Nat. Z. 885.

fafciis

3i2.^

Fn. Sv. 1356.

Found on

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