. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. '.r'wh there. Those the labourers, who they never emerge, apidly iuci-easiug to breadth, continues g time. This eell and it all the other IS they eat through • a thin shell, which ight, and many are iividual, on seating chair, finds himself, uong a heap of dust 18 of the White Ant plains frequented by s or mounds of clay verage height of the ;o three feet. They one to three hundred d in different parts, •vice to the hiuiter, imself on the otlier- ;ler both in its larva I a soft white worm, i it therefore reqxi
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. '.r'wh there. Those the labourers, who they never emerge, apidly iuci-easiug to breadth, continues g time. This eell and it all the other IS they eat through • a thin shell, which ight, and many are iividual, on seating chair, finds himself, uong a heap of dust 18 of the White Ant plains frequented by s or mounds of clay verage height of the ;o three feet. They one to three hundred d in different parts, •vice to the hiuiter, imself on the otlier- ;ler both in its larva I a soft white worm, i it therefore reqxiires ,' actually makes for stones, straws, bits of lich it lives in perfect of food, dragging its come a pupa, it spins Lie of its case, so that can pass through, but NATURAL HISTORY. 49!) Order V. {Qr. 0pil Imir; nr^pov, a wing.) l-'aniily, PhijgauI(ln;.~((Jr. tpiyavoy, a dry stick ; alluding to tboir habitations.) ^'' w % >^^-i;j&^ «>:= Grandis (Lat. larye), the Vadd'n-jl!)* at the same time all enemies are kept out. When the time for its change has aiTivcd, the piqia bites through the grating, rises to the surface, and crawls out of the reach of the wivter, which would soon bo fatal to it. The skin then splits down the back, and the perfect insect emerges. The order is called Trichoptcra, because the wings, instead of being covered with scales as are those of butterflies, are clothed with hairs.—There are many species of Caddis-flies. THE ICHNEUMON-FLY. We have now reached a most important and interesting order. In it are containeil the bees, wasps, ants, &c. This is the only order where the insects possess stings. The wings are four in number, with certain veinings uj)on them, the shape and number of which in many cases distinguishes the species. • In this cut the cases of the Caddis-worm are of tlie natural size, b\it tlie insect in the centre is reduced one half. wiauiuwinw!". Please note that these images are ex
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