The natural history of British insects : explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, oeconomy, &c together with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microscope : the whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens . [41 ]• L A T E NEPA CINEREA, j Wa TEHSCORPION, J Hemiptera. GENERIC CHARACTER, Antennae, or fore legs^ chelifprm, wings crofled and complicated ifore part coriaceous. * SPECIFIC CHARACTER, Black brown. Head fmall. Antennae cheliform. Thorax almoftfquare. Target large
The natural history of British insects : explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, oeconomy, &c together with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microscope : the whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens . [41 ]• L A T E NEPA CINEREA, j Wa TEHSCORPION, J Hemiptera. GENERIC CHARACTER, Antennae, or fore legs^ chelifprm, wings crofled and complicated ifore part coriaceous. * SPECIFIC CHARACTER, Black brown. Head fmall. Antennae cheliform. Thorax almoftfquare. Target large, brown. Shells large. One joint in each near an inch. In the female the abdomen terminates in tWQl©ng appendices. Four legs only. There ate three fpecies only of this genus common to our waters,though the waters of hot countries abound with various kinds, fomeconliderably exceeding in fize even our Sphinx Atropos, The Infeft finks its eggs into the cavity of a rufh, or other aquatic plant, whence the larvse are hatched. The perfect infe 42 PLATE XVIII. June, and thence to September or later; they are voracious, and feedon other aquatic animals, grafping their prey between their fore feet,^and tearing them to pieces with their fliarp roftrum.—They fly in theevening, and thus re
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