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Title: The natural history of British insects : explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, economy, &c. together with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microscope : the whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens
Year: 1792 (1790s)
Authors: Donovan, E. (Edward), 1768-1837 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS Tippmann Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS
Subjects: Insects
Publisher: London : Printed by D. Bye and H. Law, St. John's Square Clerkenwell for the Author, and for F. and C. Rivington no. 62, St. Paul's Church-Yard
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or Augnjl is a Papilio. The great difficulty and trouble to rear the Caterpillars, when found;and greater difBculty to take the fly, has ftamped a valuable confi-deration on it, and particularly fo when fine, and a high price is butelteemed an adequate compenfation for it if in good prefervation.The male is fmaller, but more beautiful than the female; the upperfide of the wings of the female not being enriched with that vividchange of purple which the male poTeff^s in fuch an eminent degree ;but the underfide of the female is far richer in tlie various teints ofcolour than the male : they are both beautifully fiiotted, mottled, andv.MVcd with brown, black, white, and orange. The Chryfalis is of avery delicate texture, much refembling thin wliite paper, and is tingedin feveral parts v/ith a very lively purple hue which it borrows fromthe wings of the enclofed infect, and bears the chara^-^lerJilic mark•jf 2. Papilio, bybciivi; fufpended from the tail, with the head downward. PLATE 38
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C 5 )PLATE XXXVIIL CIMEX STAGNORUM. Water Bug. Hemiptera. Shells or upper Wings remi-cruflaceous, not divided by a ftraightSuture, but incumbent on each other j Beak, curved downward. GENERIC CHARACTER, Cimex Antennas longer than the Thorax. Thorax margined,lii each Foot three Joints. SPECIFIC CHARACTER, Black, brown, long, flender. Head one third of its whole length,Antennai as long as the Head, and very flender. Eyes minute, pro-minent. Fore Legs fliorteft, length half an inch, breadth one third ofaline. Linn. Syji. 2Vat, Many fp^tties of the Cimex genus differ fo materially in their ge-neral form, that very nice attention is necefTary to difcriminate thefpecies which evidently belong to this extenfive family. The externalaj-pearance of the Houfe, or Scarlet Bug, cannot intimate the con-nection to the fame genus with this flender bodied infedl:; but fo theyare arranged by Linnaeus, and fo they will appear on a proper infpec-tion of thofe parts which conflitute their generic charadle

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