. A manual of injurious insects with methods of prevention and remedy for their attacks to food crops, forest trees, and fruit. To which is appended a short introduction to entomology . Bee Parasite {Sttjlops spencii), magnified, with lines showing nat. size. Afterfigure by J. 0. Westwoocl. These are named from the small twisted appendageswhich they bear in the place of the fore wings ; the true wingsare large in proportion to the size of the insect, forming morethan a quarter of a circle, with the two straight edges placedin front and against the body. They live in the larval stateas parasite
. A manual of injurious insects with methods of prevention and remedy for their attacks to food crops, forest trees, and fruit. To which is appended a short introduction to entomology . Bee Parasite {Sttjlops spencii), magnified, with lines showing nat. size. Afterfigure by J. 0. Westwoocl. These are named from the small twisted appendageswhich they bear in the place of the fore wings ; the true wingsare large in proportion to the size of the insect, forming morethan a quarter of a circle, with the two straight edges placedin front and against the body. They live in the larval stateas parasites in Wasps and Bees, and merely require to bereferred to here. 9. LEPIDOPTEEA (Linnaeus).—Butterflies and Largo White Cabbage Butterfly (P/<r/.s hmssiac) : 1, female Butterfly; 2,3, cater2)illar ; 1, chrysalis. ENTOMOLOGY. 389 Wings four, covered ou both sides with fine scales(whence the name of Lejmloptem, from Lepis, a scale). Headfurnished with two large compound eyes, and sometimes withocelli; horns various ; mouth with a proboscis. Body hairy,or scaly.
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