Illustrations of British Entomology, Or, a Synopsis of Indigenous Insects, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from Illustrations of British Entomology, Or, a Synopsis of Indigenous Insects, Vol. 1: Containing Their Generic and Specific Distinctions, With an Account of Their Metamorphoses, Times of Appearance, Localities, Food, and Economy, as Far as Practicable, Haustellata Above, the male is sulphur-yellow and the female greenish-white, with a dusky spot at the base of the wings, and an orange or fulvous spot in the centre, and obsolete ferruginous dots on the margin, especially on the anterior costa beneath, the male is greenish, the female paler, and the discoidal spot on all the wings is whitish in the centre, with a ferruginous margin: the abdomen is black above and yellow beneath its base and the thorax thickly clothed with long glossy white silken hairs: the legs are white: the antenna: are reddish at the base of the latter is an elevated reddish tuft of scales. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.