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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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and narrow, and the thorax knotted.All the species of these three groups are peculiar to the East Indies and the islands of the adjacent Archipelago. [The investigation of the family Cicindelidse*, corresponding with the Linnaean genus Cicindela, orCicindeletEe of Latreille, has been greatly pursued by modem continental authors, who have describeda great many new species, chiefly exotic, and have added several new genera. Dejeans Species Getieral,Vander Lindens Memoir on the hisects of Java, Laporte de Castelnan, in various memoirs. Gory, Say,Klug, Guerin, Gistl, &c., have particularly studied this family; and in our own country MLeay, Kirby,and Hope, in the 2nd part of The Coleopterisfs Manual, have described many new species,] • [English authors have jrcnerally adoiited the plan first pruposed ] treUle, and for which they rby Mr. Kirby, in hU Century, o( forming the Linnwan ^cucra into I \»ith an unifonn tnaturtil families, correspundiug with the families natartlles uf La- t
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494 INSECTA. Tiie second tribe, that of the Carabici, Latr., comprises the genusCarabus, Linn.,—Wliich has the maxilla terminated simply in a point or hook, not articulated at its base. The head isgenerally narrower, or at least not broader, than the thorax ; the mandibles, except in a few instances,are destitute of or with very slight teeth ; the tonguelet is generally exposed, and the labial palpi areonly distinctly three-jointed, (the basal joint, which in Cicindela is detached, forming a fourthjoint, being here entirely fixed, and forming a support to the palpus, and is accordingly not reckonedas a separate joint). Many species are destitute of wings, and have only elytra. They often emita fetid odour, and discharge from the anus an acrid and caustic liquid. Gcoffroy considered that the ancients designated these insects under the name of BuprestiSf andwhich they regarded as a dangerous poison, especially to oxen. (See the genus Meloe). The Carabici conceal themselves in the eart
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