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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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rig. 90.—rh: alied with broad membranes. 560 INSECTA Mantis sicafolia [or the Walking Leaf], a species peculiar to the Sechelles Islands, Mauritius, &c., of which thefemale has very short antenna?, with the wing-covers as Ion? as the abdomen, but destitute of wings ; the maleis much narrower, with long (ihform antenns ; short wing-covers, and wings as long as the abdomen. [Latreille, in the Families Naturellet, Saint Fargeau and Serville, in the EncyclopMie methodique, the latter inhis Histoire natnrelle des Insectes Orthoptcres, and Gray in liis Synopsis of Phasmidtc, have constituted a greatnumber of generic groups detached from those given above, and which are founded upon the variationsin the developeraent of the wings in the different sexes; the proportions of the thoracic segments, antennae, &c.Messrs. Burmeister and Brull^ have considerably reduced the number of these groups in their works upon thisorder.] THE SECOND FAMILY OF THE ORTHOPTERA,— The Saltatobia,— Has
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