An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 3 / or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects

by William Kirby; William Spence

[213] Ibid. 584.

[214] Considerat. Géner. 21. Horæ Entomolog. 353.

[215] De Geer, Ibid. Mr. W. MacLeay observes of the Chilopoda, or Centipedes, that they moult in the manner of Crustacea. ubi supr. 352.

[216] De Geer iii. 549. The figure of the forceps in De Geer (Ibid. t. xxv. f. 21) is not quite correct. The styles do not taper to a point, but are filiform and acute.

[217] Compare De Geer iii. t. xviii. f. 2 and 12. q.

[218] See above, Vol. II. p. [401.]

[219] Plate [XVI.] Fig. 4. c. Reaum. v. t. xix. f. 16. De Geer ubi supr. t. xxxii. f. 26. According to Reaumur, the larva as well as the pupa of Chermes Ficus has wing-cases (iii. 353).

[220] These are in the female sex of some Coleoptera, as Lampyris, &c. which retain in the perfect state nearly the same form which they had when larvæ. The larvæ of some Staphylini are not very dissimilar in form to the perfect insect.

[221] The larvæ described in the first Section, which resemble the imago, are usually covered with a skin not materially different from that of the insect in that state.

[222] Huber Fourmis. 73; N. Dict. d'Hist. Nat. vi. 250.