. 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. e antennas confifted of feven joints, or articulations: WhenceLinnceus * included the number of the joints with the fpecific cha- * In the laft edition of the Syjl. Nat, antenjji* feptemnodiis, &c. is changed for Jtennis clavato filiforjnibus, &6.** fa6ler; PLATE C
. 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. e antennas confifted of feven joints, or articulations: WhenceLinnceus * included the number of the joints with the fpecific cha- * In the laft edition of the Syjl. Nat, antenjji* feptemnodiis, &c. is changed for Jtennis clavato filiforjnibus, &6.** fa6ler; PLATE CLXIV. 73 l-a£ler ; and in the Species InfeftorUm Fabrlcius has followed thefame arrangement. Though with the ailiftance of a microfcope wemay difcover in this> and other fpecies, the exa6l number of thearticulations defcribed, yet they are too minute to ferve as part of a goodfpecific charafler, which fhould, if poflible, be feledled from themoft confpicuous and peculiar parts of the infe6l. Fabricius feemgto have been aware of this in his laft work, EntomologiaSyftematica*;and has made a very judicious alteration ; though it appears fmgularfor a fyftematic Writer to change Antennis filiformibus —9. for * Antennis inarticulatis, extrorfum crafTioribus. * Tm, 2. f. 109. iZi H ? |> L A T II l€S-.
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