An Introduction to Entomology: Or Elements of the Natural History of Insects: with Plates, 第 4 巻Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1826 |
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abdomen amongst anal analogy Anat angle animals antennæ apex Apis appear Aptera Arachnida areolets bees beetles bile-vessels body butterfly canal caterpillar characters Coleoptera colour Comp consists covered Crustacea Cuvier d'Hist Dict Diptera ditto dorsal vessel du Mus Dytiscus eggs Elytra Entomolog Entomologist fluid former furnished ganglions Geer genera genus groups grub gullet hairs head Hemiptera Hymenoptera Ibid Ichneumon imago insects intestines joint larva larvæ Latr Latreille latter legs Lepidoptera Libellulina Linn Linné longitudinal Lyonnet MacLeay Maxilla membrane metamorphosis minute mouth muscles nature nerves Neuroptera observed Ocellus Order organs orifice Orthoptera ovipositor pair palpi PLATE XII posterior probably Prothorax pupa Ramdohr Reaum Reaumur regard resembling seems segments side slender species spiders spinal spiracles stomach structure substance Swamm terminate tion trachea Trans transverse Treviranus tribes Trichoptera trunk tube ubi supr usually W. S. MacLeay wings
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136 ページ - Jujuba), a pellucid and glutinous substance begins to exude from the margins of the body, and in the end covers the whole insect with a cell of this substance, which when hardened by exposure to the air becomes lac. So numerous are these insects, and so closely crowded together, that they often entirely cover a branch; and the groups take different shapes, as squares, hexagons, &c., according to the space left round the insect which first began to form its cell. Under thes? cells the females deposit...
241 ページ - I made a quiet, not loud, but distinct noise ; the nearest antennae immediately moved towards me ; I repeated the noise at least a dozen times, and it was followed every time by the same motion of that organ, till at length the insect being alarmed, became agitated and violent in its motions.
244 ページ - ... of the atmosphere to prevent the existence of vibrations incomparably more frequent than any of which we are conscious, we may imagine that animals like the Grylli, whose powers appear to commence nearly where ours terminate, may have the faculty of hearing still sharper sounds which we do not know to exist, and that there may be other insects hearing nothing in common with us, but...
559 ページ - Within the small dimensions of a point, Muscle and nerve miraculously spun, His mighty work, who speaks and it is done, The invisible in things scarce seen reveal'd, To whom an atom is an ample field...
237 ページ - ... but a rap at the door would stop them instantly. By practice he learned to imitate their chirping: when he did this at the door, at first a few would answer him in a low note, and then the whole party would take up the tune and sing with all their might. He once shut up a male in his garden, and gave the female her liberty; but as soon as she heard the male chirp, she flew to him immediately.
240 ページ - the antennae, by a peculiar structure, may collect notices from the atmosphere, receive pulses or vibrations, and communicate them to the sensorium, which communications, though not precisely to be called hearing, may answer the same purpose.
559 ページ - Contrivance intricate, express'd with ease, Where unassisted sight no beauty sees, The shapely limb and lubricated joint, Within the small dimensions of a point, Muscle and nerve miraculously spun, His mighty work, who speaks and it is done...
136 ページ - ... whole insect with a cell of this substance, which, when hardened by exposure to the air, becomes lac. So numerous are these insects, and so closely crowded together, that they often entirely cover a branch ; and the groups take different shapes, as square, hexagon, <fec., according to the space left round the insect which first began to form its cell.
587 ページ - The Universal Angler, Made so, by Three Books of Fishing. The First Written by Mr. Izaak Walton ; The Second By Charles' Cotton, Esq ; The Third By Col.
559 ページ - New life ordain'd and brighter scenes to share, Once prone on earth, now buoyant upon air, Whose shape would make them, had they bulk and size. More hideous foes than fancy can devise ; With helmet-heads and dragon-scales adorn'd, The mighty myriads, now securely scorn'd. Would mock the majesty of man's high birth, Despise his bulwarks, and unpeople earth...