An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 4 / or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects

by William Kirby; William Spence

[1100] Curtis, Brit. Ent. t. 154.

[1101] Monogr. Ap. Angl. i. 97. t. xii. Apis **. e. 1. Neut. f. 21. d.

[1102] This term may be applied to the Mesothorax in heteropterous Hemiptera, in which that part lies buried under the Prothorax. Plate [VIII]. Fig. 20. i, k.

[1103] Chabrier Sur le Vol des Insectes. Mém. du Mus. t. viii. 55.

[1104] In many moths, particularly Spilosoma ocularia, and affinities, the insect looks as if its neck was ornamented with a beautiful tippet formed by the Patagia, and its shoulders by these lappets.

[1105] Neither Chrysomela nor Imatidium have a discoidal Epipleura; which furnishes a further proof that Notoclea is distinct from Chrysomela, and Imatidium from Cassida.

[1106] For the reason of this change of the name of Locusta F., see Zool. Journ. N^o iv.

An Acrida with this spot is figured by Professor Lichtenstein. Linn. Trans. iv. t. v. A.

[1107] Reaum. i. t. xx. f. 12-15.

[1108] Linn. Trans. v. t. iv. f. 10, 11. From my specimens, which are not in a very good state, I cannot ascertain whether this belongs to any of the modern genera into which the Ichneumones minuti of Linné are now divided.