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

by William Kirby; William Spence

[473] Reaum. i. 182.

[474] N. Dict. d'Hist. Nat. vi. 290.

[475] Those Diptera whose metamorphosis is coarctate (Vol. I. p. 67), bees, the female Cocci, &c. do not cast their skin in the larva state. Reaum. iv. 364. N. Dict. d'Hist. Nat. xx. 365.

[476] N. Dict. d'Hist. Nat. vi. 289. xx. 372. Cuvier Anat. Comp. ii. 548. M. Cuvier (Ibid. 547.) asserts, that most Papiliones and Bombyces moult seven times.

[477] Œuvr. ii. 71.

[478] Reaum. ii. 75.

[479] Bibl. Nat. E. Trans. i. 135. col. b. t. xxvii. f. 6.

[480] Œuvres, viii. 303.

[481] Entwickelungsgeschichte, &c. 34, 88. Swammerdam on the contrary affirms, that "on the hinder part of the cast skin where it is twisted and complicated, whoever accurately examines the skin itself may still observe the coat that was cast by the intestinum rectum." Ubi supr. 136. col. a.

[482] N. Dict. d'Hist. Nat. vi. 290