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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, murs et instincts des insects (!)," and a compilation from the works of Newport, Charles Darwin, and others
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Duncan, P. Martin (Peter Martin), 1821-1891 Blanchard, Emile, 1819-1900
Subjects: Metamorphosis of insects
Publisher: London, Paris, New York : Cassell, Petter & Galpin
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ld occur amongst insectswhich have great structural affinities, and which belong to a verynatural order. The Ncuroptcra are known at once by their peculiar wings.They have four, which are membranous and naked—that is tosay not covered with scales—and they are marked with mem-branous nervures so arranged as to look like net-work. They areinsects whose wings are therefore much veined and reticulate,their legs are delicate, and their bodies are almost always longand slender. The jaws and the structures of the mouth concernedin feeding are separate, and do not form a sucking apparatus.There are many different forms amongst the Netiroptcra, and somehave exceptional structures. Thus there are Ncuroptcra whosetransparent wings have nervures placed across them, and there are 34^ TRANSFORMATIONS OF INSECTS. others which have hairy wings without any cross-marking, andthe nervures branch off. Now, there are many amongst the firstkind which greatly resemble the OrtJioptcra. They unite, there-
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DIFFERENT INSECTS IN AN ANT-HILL. (TemiCS lltcifllgltm.) I. Workman. 2. Soldier. 3. Larva. 4. Nymph \vith small wings. 5. Nymph wilhlong wings. 6. Male. 7. Little female. 8. Large female. (All magnified.) fore, these two divisions of the insect world, and at the same timeare more or less separable from the characteristic Nc2iroptcra. The Nc7iroptera live in different manners. Some of them arevery industrious, are fond of society, and build large homes, whilst THE TERMES LUCIFUGUM. 349 others — and these are the most numerous — do not appear topossess either remarkable talents or instincts, but they are inte-resting, in consequence of their leading such very different livesin the larva and adult stages. ^ One of the most interesting families—not only of this order but of the whole class of insects—is that ofthe White Ant, the Termitidce. These insects are gregarious, andform numerous societies, in which may be found males and females,several kinds of neuters, and active larvae

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