Insect Miscellanies

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Lilly and Wait, 1832 - 426 páginas
 

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Deathshead hawkmoth Acherontia Atropos
96
Heads of the deathshead hawkmoth showing expe riments respecting sound
97
Experiments of Passerini and Duponchel
98
Anobium tesselatum a deathwatch beetle magni fied
101
Range of human hearing
104
Anobium striatum a deathwatch beetle magnified ib 33 Anobium pertinax a deathwatch beetle magnified ib 34 Acanthocinus ædilis
110
Adela De Geerella male and female ib 36 Ear of the crab
117
Insects which are supposed to be blind
118
Eyes of Mygale avicularia
125
Segestria perfida
126
Head of the workerbee
127
Eyes of the male bee ib 56 Tetrops præusta
128
Eyes of ephemera greatly magnified ib 60 Eyes of the bee greatly magnified
131
Section of the eye of the dragonfly
133
Section of the eye of the stagbeetle
138
Section of a compound eye showing the course of the light
139
FOOD OF INSECTS 1
142
Giant cockroach Blatta gigantea
152
Praying mantis Mantis religiosa
157
Virgin dragonfly Calepteryx Virgo
160
LAPPING INSECTS
170
Tongue of the bee with its muscles and sheath
172
Structure of the bees tongue
173
bine Aquilegia bicolor showing the hornshap ed nectaries
175
SUCKING INSECTS
177
Aphis Quercus real size and magnified
178
Sucker of the Aphis Quercus magnified ib 72 Eriosoma mali and an infected applebranch
179
Suckers of the blackhorned bug Cimex nigricor nis magnified
184
Magnified figures of the sucker of a waterbug Nepa neptunia
187
Suckers of the flea greatly magnified
189
Chigoe Pulex penetrans
191
Magnified figures of the sucker of the gnat
195
Modes of operation of the gnats sucker
196
Male and female gnat magnified
197
The cleg Hæmatopota pluvialis
201
Parts of the cleg magnified to show the sucker ib 82 Sucker of Sphinx celerio
204
SOCIAL AND DOMESTIC HABITS
206
Male spider with the palpi magnified
210

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