The Natural History of British Insects, Vol. 8 Explaining Them in Their Several States, with the Periods of Their Transformations, Their Food, Economy, &c., Together with the History of Such Minute Insects as Require Investigation by the Microscope; The

Excerpt from The Natural History of British Insects, Vol. 8: Explaining Them in Their Several States, With the Periods of Their Transformations, Their Food, Economy, &C., Together With the History of Such Minute Insects as Require Investigation by the Microscope; The Whole Illustrated by Coloured Figures

The difference between the male and female of the common Emperor Moth is flrikingly obvious; the male is fmaller than the female, and the colours in general darker; the poflerior wings alfo are orange in the male, and not fo in the female; and finally, the two fexes may be determined by the ?ru�'ture of the antennae: thofe of the male being nearly oval, and very deeply feathered, or peelimated, and thofe of the female being alfo pe�tinated, but fo {lightly as to appear fetaceous. As the firu�ture of the antenna is an unerring criterion by which the fexes are afcertained, the Phalxna Pavonia media is a phenomenon in Entomology, for both the male and female fo perfe�lly refembles the female Emperor Moih, P. P. Media, which we have figured, that it may be millaken for the fame fpecies: the female differs in no refpeft from it; and the male only in the form ofthe antennae. We have received this remarkable fpecies from, Italy and Germany. It is figured only by E?er, Pbal. 3. Tab. 3 and is thus defcribed by Linnmus and Fabricius, 6 media fingu-, laris ob foeminam mari fimillimam. The third, P. Pavonia major, can by no means be confounded with the preceding: our fpecimen of it is fix inches in breadth, and IS alfo very. Bulky: it IS found in the Pays de wad. Roefel has given a figure'of both fexes with the larva and pupa. The' winged Infect: is of a dingy brown, the marks fomewhat. Fimilar to thofe of the common kind. The larva is large, with the head..fmall in proportion. /the whole is of a Citron green.

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