Sketches of British Insects: A Handbook for Beginners in the Study of EntomologyGroombridge and Sons, 1875 - 161 pages |
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abdomen amongst animal antennæ Aphides appearance attached beautiful beautifully coloured beetle belong body British species brown butterflies called caterpillars Cecidomyia cell Cicada cocoon Coleoptera common contains creature cricket Crown 8vo curious Cynips deposit Diptera Dragon-flies Earwig eggs elytra Entomologists female FERNS filaments flies flowers fore-wings former Gall-flies galls garden genera genus gnats green GROOMBRIDGE & SONS grub habits hairs hatched head hind hind-wings horny Hymenoptera Ichneumon imago inch long insects joints labium larva larvæ latter leaves legs Lepidoptera magnified male mandibles maxillæ May-fly membranous metamorphosis moths mouth nest Neuroptera organs Orthoptera ovipositor pair of wings palpi parasitic Paternoster Row perfect insect Plant-lice plants prettily pupa pupæ Rhyncota Saw-flies seen segments skin sometimes specimens spots structure Stylops surface tail thorax Thysanura trees tube various Wasp Water-Scorpion Westwood wing-cases wingless Wood Engravings yellow young
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Page 37 - O mother Ida, many-fountain'd Ida, Dear mother Ida, harken ere I die. For now the noonday quiet holds the hill; The grasshopper is silent in the grass; The lizard, with his shadow on the stone, Rests like a shadow, and the winds are dead.
Page 37 - Floated her hair or seem'd to float in rest. She, leaning on a fragment twined with vine, Sang to the stillness, till the mountain-shade 20 Sloped downward to her seat from the upper cliff.
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Page 149 - I determined not to lose that opportunity of taking one off to examine and describe ; but what was my astonishment, when, upon my attempting to disengage it with a pin, I drew forth, from the body of the Melitta, a white fleshy larva, a quarter of an inch in length, — the head of which I had mistaken for an Acarus...
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Page 150 - I saw its skin burst, and a head as black as ink, with large, staring eyes, and antennae consisting of two branches, break forth and move itself briskly from side to side ! It looked like a little imp of darkness just emerging from the infernal regions. My eagerness to set free from its confinement this extraordinary animal, may be easily conjectured : indeed, I was impatient to become better acquainted with so singular a creature. When it was completely disengaged, and I had secured it from making...
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