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Title: The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University) NCRS Blyth, Edward, 1810-1873 Mudie, Robert, 1777-1842 Johnston, George, 1797-1855 Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893 Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: London : Wm. S. Orr and Co., Amen Corner, Paternoster Row
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ulnent, oculatus, pi/gtiueus). [Some of thesehave been separated by me into the genera Aderiis and Englenet in the Zoological Journal; they appear nearerallied to Nothus and other Heteromera.] The others have no visible labrum; the palpi are short, scarcely visible to the naked eye, and of aconical form ; the anterior prolongation of the head forms a beak or proboscis. Sometimes the antennae are straight, inserted upon the proboscis, and composed of from nine totwelve joints. Those which have the three or four terminal joints forming a mass, compose the genus—?Attelabus, Linn., and particularly of Fabricius. They devour the leaves or tender parts of vegetables, the females of the majority rolling up the leaves, in whichthey lay their eggs, furnishing also a retreat for their young during the period whilst they are feeding. The proportions of the prohoscis, the manner in which it is terminated, the tibiae and abdomen, have affordedcharacters for the establishment of four subgenera.
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3, Rhyni 540 INSECTA. Jpoderus, distinct by the head aflfixed to the thorax by a rotule. Ai?i/ii, iiai the head immersed to the eyes in the thorax. Rhynchites, has the proboscis dilated at the tip, and the abdomen nearly square.R. Bacc/itts [a splendid but very rare British species], lives on the vine, the larvjeinhabiting- the rolled-up leaves, which it devours, and thus sometimes commitsgreat damage. ApioHy Herbst., has the body pear-shaped. See the monographs of Germar andKirby, in Tmns. Linn. Soc^ vol. xii. [Some of the species do much damage,devouring the seeds of clover.] Rhinotia, Kirby [Beliis, Sch.]) has the body almost linear, and the antennaethickened, but not clubbed. Enrhinns, Kirby, has the antennas terminated by a long mass, the last jointbeing greatly elongated in the males. Tubicenus, T>e}. (Auletes, Sch.), has the antennae terminated by a perfoliatedmass, and the abdomen is oblong. Those which have the antennae filiform, with the last joint alone forming the mass,
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