THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH INSECTS VOL 12, DONOVAN

THE

NATURAL HISTORY
O

F

BRITISH INSECTS;
EXPLAINING THEM
IN

THEIR SEVERAL STATES,

WITH THE PERIODS OF THEIR TRANSFORMATION^
THEIR FOOD, (ECONOMY, &c.
TOGETHER WITH TUB

HISTORY OF SUCH MINUTE INSECTS
AS REQUIRE INVESTIGATION BY THE MICROSCOPE.
THE WHOLE ILLUSTRATED BY

COLOURED FIGURES,
DESIGNED AND EXECUTED FROM LIVING SPECIMENS.

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TENTHREDO

FASCIATA.

BANDED SAW-FLY.

HYMENOPTERA.
GENERIC CHARACTER,

Mouth
ftraight

with a horny mandible., curved, and toothed within

and obtufe

four unequal
tv/o ferrated

and

at the tips

filiform

:

lip cylindrical

wings

:

fiat

and three

and tumid

:

fting

cleft

:

;

javf

feelers

compofed of

laminae and fcarcely difclofed.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER

AND

SYNONYMS.

Deep

black

:

antennae black

Tenthredo Fasciata
fufca.

Syji.

Tenthredo antennis

:

:

upper wings with a fufcous band.

atra, antennis nigris, alis

Fabr. Sp, Inf.
Nat. 2655.

clavatis nigrisj

This

is

abdomine glabro

7-—Fn.

a rare infe6l in England.

•f Sweden, Panzer as a German

p. 407. N.

Grnel.

8.

7-

oribus fafcia fufca.

p. 921, n.

1.

primoribus fafcia

linn.

atro, alis fuperi-

Syji.

Nat.

12. 2.

Succ. 1538.

Linnaeus defcribes
fpecies,

it

as a native

and by other writers

it is

mentioned as a general inhabitant of Europe.
Fabricius


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Fabricius {peaks of a fmall white band at the bafe of the firft abdo.
minal fegment of this fpecies in our Britifh fpecimen, the whole of
:

this
it

fegment is of a pale or whitifh colour inftead of the bafe only, and

appears from the figure given by Panzer, Fn.

circumftance

The

larva,

is

Germ,

that the fame

obfervable in the individual he has delineated.

and metamorphofes of

hitherto been afcertained

by any

this fpecies

of Tenthredo has not

writer.

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CCCCII.

TENTHREDO

SERICEA.

SILKY SAW-FLY.

HYMENOPTERA.
GENERIC CHARACTER

Mouth
ftraight

with a horny mandible, curved and toothed within: jaw

and obtufe

at the tips

four unequal and filiform

two ferrated laminae, and

:

:

lips cylindrical

wings

fiat

and three

and tumid

cleft

feelers

compofed of

fling

:

:

fcarcely difclofed.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER

AND

SYNONYMS.
Antennae clavated, reddiih, or black

;

abdomen

green, or duflty,

and bronzed.

Tenthredo Sericea:

antennis

abdomine aeneo.
Schaeff.

Linn.

fcente nitente.

Fn. Suec. 1532.

The two
other, that

fexes of

Syji.

Elem. Tab. 51.

antennis clavatis luteis,

Linn.

/3

Nat.

Syft.

differ

fome authors have miftaken them

2.

9^1.

8.—

Tenthredo nitens

abdomine

viridi

coerule-

Nat. 2. 922. 10.

Sulz. Inf. tab.

Tenthredo Sericea

thorace atro

luteis,

clavatis

fo

1,8.

fig. 109.

greatly

for

from each

diftinct

fpecies.

Linnaeus


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The

Linnaeus defcribes the male as a variety of the female.
infea, which

we have

reprefented,

is

colour, glolled with a braify luftre, the antenna clavated
legs yellow, except at the bafe of the thighs,

the five
ftripe

laft

joints of the

abdomen marked

The

of dark, or velvetty black.

and brown

which are black, and

in the center

with a broad

female has the colours through-

out more obfcure, the antennae are dufky, approaching black
thorax dark, and the

abdomen

male

of a beautiful filky greenifli

braffy,

;

the

but tinged with a fombrous

hue inftead of green, and the wings are rather darker than in the
male.

This elegant fpecies
authority of

found

in

is

inferted

England.

Fabricius defcribes

green-coloured larva, which
a

among our

Britifh Infects

upon

the

two fpecimens, which we are credibly informed were
is

it

as the offspring of a fhort

masked with two yellow

cinereous head, with a reddifh

brown band.

lines,

It feeds

and has

on

the

alder.

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CCXXXIV.

TENTHREDO LUTEA.
Yellow Saw-Fly.
Hymenoptera.

Wings

four, generally

membraneous.

Tail of the females armed

with a fling.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Mouth
ffraight,

with a horny curved mandible, toothed within, the jaw

and obtufe

four, unequal

and

at

the

filiform

compofed of two

the lip cylindrical and trifid

tip,
:

ferrated

wings tumid, the lower ones
laminae, and almofl fecreted

feelers

:

lefs
:

:

fling

flemmata

-ihree.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND

SYNONYMS.
Abdomen

Antennae clubbed, yellow.

yellow,

with the fecond

fegment black.

Temthredo

lutea-: antennis
plerifque flavis.

clavatis lute;?,

abdominis fegmenti3

Linn. S\Ji. Nat.

2.

9k I.

3.— En.

Sv. loS'b.
Fab. Ent.

Syft. I. 2. p.

105. 138. 3.

RoeJ. Inf. 2. Vefp.iab. 13.
Schaff.

I on.

tab. 10S. fig. 2. 3.

Degeer. Inf. 2. 2. 223. 7. tab. 33, fig. 8. 16.

G

Very


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Very uncommon
the Willow,

in this country.

but unlefs taken

impoflible to rear

it

to the

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The

larva has

when ready

winged

ftate.

with

the peculiar habits of thefe Infefts,

them

in a

to

We are

Moft of

it

i

acquainted

and cannot therefore

the

feed

Tenthredines enfhroud themfelves in a net-work
till

the Fly burft forth

;

others

web againfl: the branches of trees, or on the trunk near
The habits of Tenthredo lutea are very fimilar to thofe

faften the

T.

a pupa,

little

proper manner.

covering, and remain in the earth

earth.

been found on

become

Vitellines

;

the

of

the winded Infe£t appears in June,

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CCCCXLIV.

TENTHREDO

VIRIDIS.

GREEN SAW-FLY.

HYMENOPTERA.
GENERIC CHARACTER.

Mouth with a horny curved
and obtufe

at

and filiform

:

the tip

:

mandible, toothed within; the jaw ftraight

lip cylindrical

and

trifid

:

feelers four, unequal,

wings tumid, the lower ones fmaller

of two ferrated laminae and almoft fecreted

:

fting

:

ftemmata

compofed

three.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND

SYNONYMS.

Green

:

head and thorax, charactered with black

:

abdomen with

black fpots.

Tenthredo

viridis
gris.

Tenthredo

viridis

:

:

capite thoraceque fupra chara&eribus ni-

Geoff. Inf. 2. 271. n.

I.

antennis feptemnodiis, corpore viridi, abdomine fu-

pra fufco.
Suec.

Linn.

Syjl.

1554.— Fabr. Ent.

8ulz.lnf.tal.

Nat. 2. 924.

27.— Fn.

Syji. T. 2. p. 113. n. 33.

18. fig. 112.

colour of this elegant infeft varies from a pale yellow
fometimes to brown, the markings of black lines
to bright green, and
appear

The around