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Title: The transformations (or metamorphoses) of insects (Insecta, Myriapoda, Arachnida, and Crustacea) : being an adaptation, for English readers, of M. Émile Blanchard's "Metamorphoses, moeurs et instincts des insects;" and a compilation from the works of Newport, Charles Darwin, Spence Bate, Fritz Müller, Packard, Lubbock, Stainton, and others
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Duncan, P. Martin (Peter Martin), 1821-1891 Blanchard, Emile, 1819-1900. Metamorphoses, moeurs et instincts des insects Conger, Paul S., former owner. DSI Abbott, Charles C., former owner. DSI
Subjects: Insects Insects Myriapoda Arachnida Crustacea
Publisher: Philadelphia : Claxton, Remsen, and Haffelfinger
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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enerally considered very disagreeable insects.They are not pleasant to look at; they are offensive to our senseof smell, on account of their very fetid odour, and they exciteour antipathy on account of the waste and destruction theycause. Possessing great agility, and being able to run with ex-traordinary rapidity, they have something very peculiar in theiraspect and habits ; generally the body is large, broad, flat, andclothed with very flexible coriaceous integuments. The head isalmost hidden under the prothorax, and its antennae are very longand as delicate as threads. They are common in some places,especially on board ship and in seaport towns; but commercehas carried them more or less over the whole world. They arecalled by all sorts of names, but we know them as black beetlesand cock-roaches. Such they are, in fact, as regards their colour,but they are true OrtJioptcra. They manage to hide themselvesup very easily ; and from their having flat bodies and very com- THE ORTHOPTERA.
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Blatta Americana. pressible skins, they can squeeze themselves into very narrowplaces. Being omnivorous they attack everything that comes intheir way which can possibly be consumed ; nothing is amiss to ^),S rA.iXSFOKMATIOXS OF INSECTS. them ; and they inflict great losses upon merchants, as well asupon householders. They do not lay their eggs one by one indifferent places, but they shut them up in a sort of capsule, whichis rather leathery, and they carry it about with them until theyoung are about to escape ; they then help the little ones to getout of this bag, and at first are very attentive to them. The Blatta Americana is very common, and may be frequentlynoticed in the cargoes of ships. The engraving on page 337represents the larva and two adults of this kind. Blatta Oricntalis, which is not so large as that just noticed,has its wings very badly developed. It is common in towns,and is particularly fond of hiding up in the cracks of chimneys,and of only appearing at night time.

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