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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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er, I call itthe pterygoda. The abdomen, comjjosed of six or seven joints, is attached to the thorax by avery small portion of its diameter, and is furnished with neither sting nor ovipositor analogousto that of the Hymenoptera. In many females, however, as in Cossus, the terminal segmentsare elongated and narrowed, so as to form an oviduct, like a pointed and retractile tail. Thetarsi have constantly five joints. The species always consist only of males and females; thelatter ordinarily deposit their eggs, which are very numerous, upon vegetable substances,upon which the larvte feed, and after which the females soon die. The larva; of Lepidopterous insects are known imder the name of Caterpillars. They havesix scaly feet, corresponding with those of the perfect insect, besides from four to tenmembranous feet, of which the two last are situated at the posterior extremity of the body,near the anus : those with only ten or twelve feet are called Geometers, or Loojiers, from 604 INSECTA.
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their peculiar mode of walking. Seizing fast hold of the objeets on which they are stationedwith these six fore-legs, they elevate the intermediate segments of the body into an arch, untilthey bring the hind-feet close to the others; these they disengage, and, retaining hold with the hind feet, thrust forward the body to /^ h /T-c i_ its full length, and then recommence the same manoeuvre. Many of these Looper-eaterpillars resemble, iu their mode ofstanding, fixed for a great length of timeonly by their hind legs to twigs, as well asin their form and colours, small pieces ofstick. Such an attitude necessarily requiresa pro<ligious muscular force, and Lyonnethas, in effect, discovered that the caterpillarof the Goat Moth posseses 4041 muscles.Some Caterpillars with fourteen or sixteenfeet, (some of the intermediate membranouslegs being, however, smaller than the others,) have been named Semi-geometers. The mem-branous feet are mostly terminated by a more or less perfect coronet of l
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