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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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rionus, where it was at first placed, but to adistinct one belonging to the Lamiariae, namely, Acrocinus, lUig. (Macropus, Thunb.), distinguished from all other Longieornes by having the thorax furnishedon each side with a moveable tubercle, terminated by a point or by a spine. The body is flattened, the thorax trans-verse, antenn£E long and slender, the fore-legs longer than the others, and the elytra truncated at the tips andterminated by two spines, the outer one being the longest; the most remarkable species is the A. longimanwt^ inwhich the thighs and tibiae of the fore-legs are very long and slender; the upper side of the body is agreeably diver-sified with grey, red, and black colours. All the other Lamiariae compose but a single genus,— Lamia,—Which we divide into two sections,—those with the sides of the thorax tubercular or spineri, and those in whichit is entire and cylindric. The first is again divided into those with and those without wings. A great number of N N 2
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548 INSECTA. the former, from South America, having-the body shorter, broader, and depressed, with the thorax transverse, theabdomen nearly square, scarcely longer than broad, the feet robust, and the tarsi much dilated, form the g:enus—Acanthocimts, Meg;erle, of which we possess only three European species.One {L. tedilis, Fabr.) is remarkable for the male antennie being more thanfour times the length of the body. Others of a similar form, with the antenus bearded or fasciculated, formthe subgenus Pogonocherusy of which there are several British species,nearly all of which are remarkable fur having the elytra obliquely truncateat the tips. Tetraopes, is but slightly elongate, and has each eye entirely divided intotwo parts by the tubercle, from whence arises the antenna;. MunochainuSy Dej., has the body narrow and long, the antennie exceed-ingly long, a strong spine on each side of the thorax, middle tibiae slightly FiK. ^l.-Acaml.ociiius -speculirer. ^q^^. In Dejeans catalogue, if
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