Volume 4

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 / by E. Donovan.

  • Donovan, E. (Edward), 1768-1837.
Date:
1792-1813
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Credit: 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 / by E. Donovan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Papilio alis pallide flavis, rivulis tranfverfis nigris fecundariis angulo iubulato maculaque crocea. Geoff. Inf. 2. 56. 24.. Papilio Sinon. Pod. Inf. 62. tab. 1. fig. 1. Cram. Inf. 13. tab. 152. tab. 2. fig. 1. Merian. Europ. 163. tab. 44, Roefi Inf. 1. pap. 2. tab. 2. Reaum. Inf. 1. tab. li.fig. 3. 4. Jtnfi. Inf. tab. 5. fig. 5. Efp. pap. 1. tab. 1. fig. 2. Schaff. elem. tab. ty\.fig. 4. • ■ ■ ' Icon. tab. 45. fig- 3. 4. Raj. Inf. hi. 3. Fab. Spec. Inf. 2. 15. 58. Fabricius * and fome other entomological writers have very minutely deferibed the Larva and Pupa ftate of this rare butterfly; the Larva feed on the leaves of the turnip, cabbage, and other plants of the fame genus; it is of a yellow colour, with fpots of brown, head pale green. The Pupa is yellow, fpotted with brown alfo, and has two teeth, or {harp points in the fore-part. We have received the Butterfly from North America, as well as from Germany; it appears to be a native of moft parts of the Euro- pean Continent, though perhaps not frequently found.—Berkenhout is the only writer who has deferibed it as an Englifh fpecies f; he fays it is rare (in this country,) found in woods. In the perfeft ftate, vifits flowers in the day time. * Habitat in Europ* Brafiic*. Larva folitaria, flavefeens, fufeo pun&ata, capite pallide virefcentc. Puppa flavefeens, fufeo pundtata, antice bidentata. Fab. Spec. JnJ. &c. f Synopfis of the Natural Hiftory of Great Britain-and Ireland.