Introduction to
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共 50 段- The _optic_ are usually the most conspicuous and remarkable
- That Dr. Virey should regard instinct in insects as purely m
- 4. The _size_ of spiracles varies considerably. Those in the
- _Laminose_ or foliaceous respiratory appendages distinguish
- Having considered the different organs of respiration both e
- We learn from the highest authority, that the _blood_ is the
- I must now say something upon what I conceive to be the real
- With regard to their _apex_, the bile-vessels are sometimes
- In this letter it may not be out of place to say a few words
- ii. _Saliva._ Many insects have the power of discharging fro
- [619] _Ibid._ 17. _t._ i. _f._ 4.
- Certain female moths, of the species of that family which, f
- iii. _Shape._ The muscles of insects are usually _linear_, w
- The alternate rush of air from the abdomen into the alitrunk
- Insect diseases may, I think, be divided into two great clas
- Vallisnieri appears to have been the first naturalist who di
- _Acariasis_ seems a disease almost as universal amongst inse
- In inquiring therefore into what may be the most general use
- These experiments incontestibly prove that the organ of scen
- 14. FOSSULATE (_Fossulata_). Having one or more fossulets.--
- 25. NICTITANT OCELLUS (_Ocellus nictitans_). When the ocellu
- 6. CYMBIFORM (_Cymbiforme_). When the margin of the thorax a
- 1. SETIGEROUS (_Setigeræ_). Antennæ furnished with a termina
- 6. RADIANT (_Radiantes_). When a small roundish areolet is a
- When the ALMIGHTY CREATOR willed to bring into existence thi
- _Tail_ of the female without a terebrant, or pungent
- Previously to the groups themselves their _nomenclature_ cla
- For the more satisfactory elucidation of the subject before
- [1168] In _Buprestis_, _Molorchus_, &c., they are only longi
- 2. _The Era of the Revival of the Science._ From the time of
- GENERAL ORDERS. CLASSES.
- Having given you these tables of the _Orders_, from a compar
- [1412] Derivation uncertain. Perhaps Αυλων, A long and narro
- i. Entomologists, taking _heat_ for the principal regulator
- As _mountains_ and _hills_ have usually their own Flora, the
- ii. _Crepuscular_ insects, strictly speaking, are those that
- Another object of the collector of insects, when he has once
- Although a very large proportion of the insect inhabitants o
- Though sometimes the limits that separate good species appea
- In plurimis tamen insectis femina fit modestiæ et pudicitiæ
- HUMBOLDT (Alexander, Baron de) and Bonpland (Aimé) Personal
- _Walton_ (Izaac) The universal _angler_, made so by three bo
- Brachia, 368, 544; iv. 338.
- ÆGIALIA Ltr. _Scarabæus_ L. _Aphodius_ Il. F. _Psammodius_ G
- LAMIA F. Ltr. _Cerambyx_ L. Mm. i. 235. ii. 387.
- MYRMELEON L. F. Ltr. _Formicaleo_ Gff. i. 267, 425. ii. 287.
- CERACAMPA Kby. _Phalæna_ (Bombyx) L. Bombyx F. Ltr.
- NYMPHON Ltr. F. _Phalangium_ L. _Pycnogonum_. O. F.
- _Insects_, apparatus for killing, iv. 540:
- NEW DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF MINERALS, greatly extended, wit