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Title: British entomology; being illustrations and descriptions of the genera of insects found in Great Britain and Ireland: containing coloured figures from nature of the most rare and beautiful species, and in many instances of the plants upon which they are found
Year: 1823 (1820s)
Authors: Curtis, John, 1791-1862
Subjects: Insects Insects -- Great Britain Botany
Publisher: London, Printed for the author
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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s. Li t/te Cabinet of the British Museum. Dr. Leach has described in the Zoological Miscellany (abovereferred to) eleven species of this fine Genus, seven of which are ascertained to be inhabitants of Great Britain; the unique speci-men figured, which is a female, was taken in the month of Julyat Windsor several years since by Mr. Griesbach, and presentedto the British Museum by Dr. Leach. The larvae of this Genus greatly resemble those of the Lepidop-tera, except that they have twenty-two feet; they have also twolateral apertures from which they are able to spirt a fluid, for whatpurpose we can only conjecture, probably it may be sufficientlyfetid or noxious to protect them against the attacks of the destruc-tive Ichneumonida. When the larvae are full grown, they formfor themselves an oblong hard case, which is generally attachedto a twig or small branch of the tree they fed upon, within whichthey change to an incomplete pupa. The plant figured is Holcus mollis (Creeping Soft Grass).
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CMM/^rJ.SM/iiu _!^/<^ ^^, y /a2/ 49.TRICHIOSOMA LATERALE. Order Hymenoptera. Fam. Tenthredinidse Lat., Leach.Type of tlie Genus Tenthredo Lucoriim Linn. Triciiiosoma L^ach. Cimbex Oliv., Fab., Lat. Tenthredo Linn.,Fab., Jiir. Antenna inserted between the eyes, clavate, punctured, 7-jointcd,first joint nearly globose, very hairj, second transverse, third verylong and slender, fourth and fifth clavate, truncate, sixth dilatedanteriorly, forming the base of the club which has an elevatedtransverse suture, (f. 1.) Labrum quadrate, angulated at the base, rounded before and cili-ated, sliglitly produced in the centre. (2.) Mandibles cxsertcd, of the male very long, slender, acute, mostcommonly with two teeth on the internal side. (3.)Maxillfe witli the external lobe corneous, the internal one mem-branaceous, haiiy : Palpi irregular, extending a little beyondthe maxillic, composed of six joints nearly equal in length, thefourth being the most dilated, and the tenuinal most slender.(4.) Me

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