The British Miscellany; Or Coloured Figures of New Rare, or Little Known Animal Subjects Many Not Before Ascertained to Be Inhabitants of the British Isles and Chiefly in the Possession of the Author
The British Miscellany; Or Coloured Figures of New Rare, or Little Known Animal Subjects Many Not Before Ascertained to Be Inhabitants of the British Isles and Chiefly in the Possession of the Author
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1804 Excerpt: ...anus. The body of the larva is subcylindrical, soft, whitish, inserted into the abdomen of the Melitta, the head being VOL. I. L exserted, corneous, heart-shaped, fiattish, subrufous, black behind, underneath concave behind. llfon. Ap. Angl. Since I met with the extraordinary insect here described, I have had the good ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1804 Excerpt: ...anus. The body of the larva is subcylindrical, soft, whitish, inserted into the abdomen of the Melitta, the head being VOL. I. L exserted, corneous, heart-shaped, fiattish, subrufous, black behind, underneath concave behind. llfon. Ap. Angl. Since I met with the extraordinary insect here described, I have had the good fortune to extract a pair of pupa: just ready to be disclosed, from the body of another Melitta. No sooner did I touch them, than they "burst their cerements," and I was not slow to prevent their escape. One of these is here figured. It seems to vary somewhat from my original specimen, but not sufficiently, I think, to be deemed a distinct species. The legs are black instead of piceous, the abdomen also is not so totally concealed by the scutellum, but is rather exserted and acute. This part, however, is most probably retractile, for being fleshy, and consequently liable to injury, it wants the shelter which the scutellum above and the processes on the sides and beneath (fig. 7. I111.) seem designed to afford it. The velvetty blackness of the body makes the sutures of the trunk and the inosculations of the first joints of the antenna: very difficult to distinguish even-under a powerful magnifier. In my original specimen I discovered only a single joint before the antennae branched out. Mr. Sowerby found two, as represented in fig. 5. The shape of the lower branch or' auricle seems different also in the two specimens. " Mr. Sowerby suggested to me that what I took for larvae of this insect (Monogr. Ap. Angl. 111-14) were really pupae: --To this ingenious conjecture I readily accede, as it removes all the difficulty with respect to their mode of feeding; the larva living entirely within the body till it is ready to take th...
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Very Good. No Jacket. Nos. 1 of 1804 through 12 of 1806, bound as a single volume, with covers bound in at rear; 76 hand colored plates, of which two are folding; Modern quarter leather, with gilt stamped lettering and decoration and marbled paper over boards; Scattered mostly very light foxing; Scattered offsetting, sometimes on the heavy side; Collated and complete.