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 (14594648138)

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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 microcsope. The whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens
Year: 1792 (1790s)
Authors: Donovan, E. (Edward), 1768-1837
Subjects: Insects Insects
Publisher: London, Printed for the author, and for F. & C. Rivington
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Mann Library, Cornell



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s miftaken as to Phalaena Nupta,which they have made the Crimfon Undenting Moth. We have beforeexnreffed our doubt whether Phalaena Pacla has ever been found inthis country ;—we add, that the In feci, known to Englifh collectorsby the trivial name of Crimfon Under wing, is the Phalcena fponfa ofLinnaeus and Fabricius f, and confequently not connected in the leaftwith Phalaena Nupta. The readers of the works of Harris, Berkenhout, &c. are requeftedto read For Phalaena Nupta, Phalaena Sponfa, Crimfon Under- wing Moth.For Phalaena Pafta, Phalaena Nupta, Willow red Under-wing Moth.And finally, remove Phalaena Pacla from the lift of Britifh fpecies,till it is proved to be a native of this country. * Berkenhout fays the abdomen is reddifh above; but by this he only encreafes the.miftake; for his fpecies agrees in every other refpefl; with the Willow Moth, on which.plant he alfo fays it is found. Page 140. Vol. 1. t Vid« Entomologia Syftematica. Vol. in. p. 2- p-SI- J47« E4 PLATE -24
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( 77 ) PLATE CCCXXIV. phalina sponsa. Crimson Underwing Moth* GENERIC CHARACTER.Antenna fetaceous. Wing deflexed when at reft. Fly by night. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND s r n o n r m s. Thorax crefted. Anterior wings greyifh, undulated, fpottedwith brown. Pofterior pair crimfon, with two black bars acrofs.Abdomen grey. Phal^na Sponsa ; crifta, alis planis cinerafcentibus fufco undu-latis : pofticis rubris; fafciis duabus nigris, abdo-mine undique cinereo. Linn. Syfi. Nat. 2. 841.Il8. RoeJ. Inf. 4. tab. 19. In the defcription of Phalsena Nupta, we have ofFered fome re-marks on the Sponfa, Nupta, and Pacta of Linnaeus and Fabricius;and have only to add in this place, that an accurate figure ofP. Pacta is given in Fuejl. Archiv. tab. 15. fig. 3. This figure isfmaller than the fpecies found in Great Britain, and in particularhas the upper furface of the abdomen crimfon, as authors have de-fcribed it. The 7B PLATE CCCXXIV. The Synonyms of the three fpecies, as they ftand in the works ofLinrueus