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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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oods, upon turf, and low herbs at the sides of foot-paths, crawling slowly, and emit-ting a yellow fiuid from the joints of their feet w hen disturbed. They especially inhabit the south of Europe, andthe northern countries of Africa. Amongst those which have the thorax narrowed behind, and nearly of acrescent-shape, and which are the largest of the tribe, is the {Tencbrio) Uevigatns, Linn, [a common British species],from four to eight lines long; black, with the thorax and elytra smooth, finely punctured, and the antenna andfeet violet-coloured. Its larva ie green or violet-coloured, very swollen, with the extremity yellow. It is foundon the Ladys bed-straw. It undergoes its transformations in the earth. Chrysomela proper, comprises those species of Olivier which are furnished with wings, and in which the maxil-lary palpi, according to the subdivisions established above, have the last joint as large as or larger than the pie-ceding, of an ovoid-truncate or conic-reversed form. Such is
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COLEOPTERA. 553 Chn/somela sangumolenta [a commnn British sptcies^, four lines lontj, black or blue-black, with tlie sides oi thethorax tbickeneil, and the elytra with a broad margin of red. It is found on the earth in fleld^, at the bideti ufoot-paths. Chryswufa pnpuUy Linn., is blue, with red elytra, having a smallblack murk at the tip. It is found in the willow and poplar, onwhich its lar\a lives, often in society. [It is very abundant inEngland], and forms, with some others, the geuus Lina ofMe^cerle. We finish this tribe with those Chrysomolinffi which have themaxillary palpi slender at the tips, and terminated in a point.FiK. 8&. — CbryiomrU po^uii. fig- 1. Latt* ; 2, P»i>ft; Phtedotty Meg. (Bod Culaphwr, Meg.), have the body ovoid ororbicular. ProsoeuriSf Latr. (Hetodes, Fabr.), has the body narrow, more elongated, and the terminal joints of the antenna*fonna straight mass. [P. pheltandrii, a common British species. Several other subgenera have been separated byrecent
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