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British moths and their transformations, arranged in a ser. of plates, with characters and descr. by J.O. Westwood
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British Moths and Their Transformations
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British moths and their transformations. Arranged and illustrated in a series of plates by H. N. Humphreys, Esq. With characters and descriptions by J. O. Westwood
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The British Moths and Their Transformations
Author: British Moths and Their Transformations
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British Moths and Their Transformations
Author: British Moths and Their Transformations; 2
Author: Henry Noel 1810-1879 HumphreysPublisher: Legare Street Press
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British Moths and Their Transformations. Arranged and Illustrated in a Series of Plates by H.N. Humphreys, with Characters and Descriptions by J.O.W.
Author: John Obadiah WESTWOODBritish Moths and Their Transformations. Arranged and Illustrated in a Series of Plates by H.N. Humphreys, Esq. With Characters and Descriptions by J.O. Westwood.
Author: John Obadiah WESTWOODBritish Moths and Their Transformations, Arranged in a Ser. of Plates, with Characters and Descr. by J. O. Westwood
Author: Henry Noel HumphreysPublisher: Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN: 9781230136240
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 edition. Excerpt: ...before the anterior stigma; another dentated beyond the outer stigma, succeeded by a paler one, slightly undulated: the stigmata are pale luteous brown, edged with a dusky line, and greyish in the middle. There is also a dusky dot behind the anterior stigma in the place of the supplemental one, and there is a row of marginal black spots; the hind wings are luteous brown, with the margin darker. The ciliae are pale reddish. The antennra are exceedingly slender, with the ciliations scareely pereeptible. The abdomen is pale luteous brown. The caterpillar is described by Treitsclike as of a blackish brown, striped with reddish and white, with a reddish yellow head, and with small black lines at the sides of the back. Mr. Stephens reared a specimen, which he gives as identical with the Candelisequa, from a caterpillar found at Darenth "Wood, Kent, in May, the moth appearing in July. SPECIES 11.--GRAPHIPIIORA TRISTIGMA. Plate XXV., Fig. 10. Symonymes.--Graphiphora tristigma, Ochsenhcimer; Treitsclike; Stephens; Wood, Ind. Ent. pi. 10, fig. 161; Boisduval, Ind.Meth., p. 105 (Xoctua tr.). This species measures rather more than lr inch in the expanse of the fore wings. It has much of the character and appearance of Gr. brunnea, the fore wings and body being of a dark rich purplish brown colour, varied with strigje as in that species; close to the base of the wings is a black spot of variable form and size; another black patch is placed immediately before the basal stigma, and extends backwards; and there is a third rhomboidal spot, of the same colour, between the stigmata, both of which are of a brown colour, thus differing from Gr. brunnea; beyond the second stigma is a narrow and much curved pale striga, followed by a broader irregular dark...