. Elements of entomology: an outline of the natural history and classification of British insects. Insects -- Great Britain. Locusta Jlavipes. CHAPTER VIII. ORTHOPTERA. Fully equal to the Coleoptera in the perfect deve- lopment of the organs of the mouthy the Orthoptera also agree with the Beetles to a certain extent in other points of their structure. There are, however, abundance of characters by which they may be separated, but none of these are of more import- ance than the nature of the metamorphosis, which in all the Orthoptera is of the kind called incomplete, whilst in some cases we ca
. Elements of entomology: an outline of the natural history and classification of British insects. Insects -- Great Britain. Locusta Jlavipes. CHAPTER VIII. ORTHOPTERA. Fully equal to the Coleoptera in the perfect deve- lopment of the organs of the mouthy the Orthoptera also agree with the Beetles to a certain extent in other points of their structure. There are, however, abundance of characters by which they may be separated, but none of these are of more import- ance than the nature of the metamorphosis, which in all the Orthoptera is of the kind called incomplete, whilst in some cases we can hardly say that there is any metamorphosis at all. The young of the ordinary insects of this order, when they quit the egg, closely resemble their parents, except that they are destitute of the wings with which the latter are usually provided; they continue growing and. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Dallas, W. S. (William Sweetland), 1824-1890. London, J. van Voorst
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