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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 microscope : the whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens
Year: 1794 (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
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cond wings fhorteft. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Antennae clavated. Abdomen above black, very hairy, with alateral line of rufous. Legs yellowiih. Thighs behind dentated. T. V. Antennis clavatis, abdomine fupranigro, lateribus rufis, femo-ribus poilicis dentatis. Syji. Ent. 318. 6. T. V. A;itennis clavatis, ore elabiato, abdomine rufo dorfo nigro,femoribus poilicis dentatis. Linn. SyJi. Nat. 2. 921. 5.—Fn. Sv. 1535. .Stroem. Sundm. 171. Tab. 10. Fig. ii. * Varietas triplo minor, vix diflinda. H 2 * Larva 44 PLATE LXXXVIII. Larva virefcens per aperturam ante anum tanquam e fiphone aquaniexfpuit. Fabrlcius. Spec. Inf. i. 407. 7. The Larva of this fpecies is found on the Alder, Oder and Willow;it is large, of a green colour, and at firft fight, greatly refembles the Caterpillars of fome Lepidopterous Infe£ls. When it firft appears from the Chryfalis very little of the black ofthe Thorax and Abdomen can ^e feen, thofe parts being at that timethickly cloathed with long brownifii hairs. PLATE 3^
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C 45 ) PLATE LXXXIX, PAPILIO ANTIOPA. Camberwell Beauty.Lepidoptera. GENERIC CHARACTER, Antennae clayated. Wings, when at reft, ere6t. Fly in the daytime, SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Wings angulated, rich purple-brown, with a pale yellow externalborder j and an intermediate dark border, with a row of bluifh eyes ;on the anterior margin of the firft wings two long yellowifti fpots. ——Alis angulatis nigris, limbo albida. Linn. Syft. Nat. 2. 776, 165.—Fn. Sv. 1056.Geoff, Inf. 2. 35. I. Papilio maxinia nigra, alis utrifque limbo lato albo cin£l:is.Raj. Inf. 135. 136.Jonfl. Inf. ?. 9. y II.Schoeff. Elem. Tab. 94. Fig. i. » Icon. Tab. 70. Fig. 1. ^ 2. Suh. Inf. I. Tab. 14. Fig. 85.Roef Inf. I. Pap. 1. Tab. i.Efp. Pap. I. Tab. 12. pAg. 2.Seb. Muf 4. Tab. 32. Fig. I, 2.Bergjlrafs. 2. Tab. 39. Fig. i. 2. 3. 4.IFilk. Pap. 58. Tab. 2. a. 10.Degeer. Inf. i. Tab. 21. Fig. 8. 9. Th« 46 PLATE LXXXIX. The Fapilio x\ntiopa is found in every part of Europe j in Germany,particularly it is very common;

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