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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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ria; reside. They respire by extending theirtails to the surface, a spiracle being situated between thescales, at the extremity of the body. The skin, unchanged inform, serves as a cocoon to the inclosed pupa, which, however,only occupies one e-xtremity of the larva skin. The perfectinsect escapes by a slit made through the second segment.H. chanurleort. Fab., a very common species.Odontomyia, Meig., have the antenna; scarcely longer thanthe head, with the first two joints short, nearly equal, the thirdforming an elongate cone, slender, with at least five distinctjoints ; the last conic, suddenly compressed, and recurved. Bphippium, Latr. (Clitellaria, Meig.), has the antenna;scarcely longer than the head, with the two basal joints short,the third forming a shorter cone, thicker, the fourth jointtruncate-conic, suddenly narrowed at tip, and terminated by a2-jointed style. S. ephipphm. Fab. (E. Ihoracicum, Latr.).the shortness of the antennae, which are also styliferous, but with S S 2
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Fig. 135.—S cfaaaiEleun. Oxycera, Meig-, similar to Ephippium C>2S INSECTA. the third joiut shorter, nearly ovoid, and the fourth joint shorter, the style not terminal, but dorsal. 0. llif-potcon. Fab. Nemotflt/s, Geoff., differs from the preceding: in having the proboscis long:, siphon-shaped, elbowed at thebase, and lodf:;cd in a frontal protuberance of the head, like a beak. In the others the third joint of the antenna- forms, with the preceding, an ovoid or globular mass, terminatedby a long seta. The scutellum is rarely spined. Ckri/sochtora, Latr. (Sarfftts, Fab.), has the third joint of the antenna conic, and terminated by a seta. Surgux, Fab., has the same joint subovoid, or nearly globose, rounded, or obtuse at the tip, with the seta dorsal.The first joiut is nearly cylindrical; the scutellum rarely spined ; the body often elongate, green, or coppery, andbrilliant. Musca cupraria, Linn., a very common species, the larva of which resides in cow dung, and is of anoval, obl
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