A decade of curious insects : some of them not describ'd before, shewn in their natural size, and as they appear enlarg'd before the Lucernal microscope, in which the solar apparatus is artificially illuminated : With their history, characters, manners, and places of abode, on ten quarto plates, and their explanations : drawn and engraved from nature (1773)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775, Barber, Herbert Spencer, 1882-1950, former owner DSI · London : Printed for the author, in St. James's-Street, and sold by B. White, in Fleet-Street; P. Elmsly, in the Strand; Parker, in Cornhill; Baldwin, in Pater-Noster-Row; Ridley, St. James's Street; and J. Balfour, at Edinburgh · leaf 38
. Its Trunk is of a tawny brown, with a brighter fpot in the middle.The Scutcheon is nearly white. Its Boi; ■■ is of a dead brown.The Rings are pale. Its Legs are of a greylfh, or afh colour. The Wings, tho not decorated as the Moths, or Butterflies; yethave a peculiar and wonderful prettinefs :… … J^/>/i^/n^rt7 ^//(hfj^^/ v/^^J. [ 19 ] 2. R O C K D A Y - F L Y.EPHEMERA RUPESTRIS. Plate 8. The Antlers have a multitude of clofe-connefted joints, and growall the way fmaller to a point. The Bristles at the Tail are fliort, and weak. Nothing can be ftranger than the hiflory of this Fly, which…
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