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 46
s lemon-colourd. Its Ryes are of a delicate blue. The Studs over them deep black, Its Anilers are of the paleft brown, but ruddy at the bafe of each Joint. The Feelers are pale, and fmall. its Trunk is of a pale ftraw-colour. The Scutcheon has a tint of greenifh. ,^ Its Body is very pale… … ^:i//iiee6it J^a//f-<T^ C 23 ] 2. T H E TAWNY CHINCH.ALLUCITA FULVA.Olate io. ^Each wing Is compofed of two feathers, rifing from a fimple bafe. This little creature lives in the hollows of the Flowers of Plants,as the preceding; and feems calculated to do at leafl: as much mif-chief, being…
Insects · Microscopy
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