. The museum of natural history, with introductory essay on the natural history of the primeval world : being a popular account of the structure, habits, and classification of the various departments of the animal kingdom, quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, shells, and insects, including the insects destructive to agriculture . Diurnis furcillatua. Taphroderes McUii. is dressed and eaten by the white colonists, as well asthe negroes. The larva of the Macrodontia cervicornis, * Hope, Tran. Ent. Soc, vol. iii. p. See Whites Catalogue of Longicorns in British MuseumcoUtctioD. Profile of H
. The museum of natural history, with introductory essay on the natural history of the primeval world : being a popular account of the structure, habits, and classification of the various departments of the animal kingdom, quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, shells, and insects, including the insects destructive to agriculture . Diurnis furcillatua. Taphroderes McUii. is dressed and eaten by the white colonists, as well asthe negroes. The larva of the Macrodontia cervicornis, * Hope, Tran. Ent. Soc, vol. iii. p. See Whites Catalogue of Longicorns in British MuseumcoUtctioD. Profile of Hypocephaltis, figured here. Fig. MS Te^pTesents Diurnis furcillatus,and fig. 129 Taphroderes Mellii. The Brentus Tera-minckii of Java is the most gigantic of the tribe. Fig. Under side of Hypocephalus. The very curious Hypocephalus, of which I have seenbut one specimen, that in the collection of J. Aspinal -Cerambtcid^. 233 Turner, Esq., for Manchester, connects, as I fancy,so I have shown elsewhere, the Brenthidee with thePriuindcB through the genus Dortjslhenes. I have caused the excellent figure of the Hypoce-phalus to be copied—figs. 130, 131. A glance will show that the insect is closely relatedto Dorysthencs rostratus and D. montanus, and theallied genera of PrioindoB; while I have shown else-where its affinities to, if they be not stronger thananalogies with, some of the Breiithidm. Family—PRIONIDiE. The family of Pkionid^ contains some of the largestof coleopterous insects. In this group of Beetles comes
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