Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . th short de-scription. Themain purpose ofthe series is toplace before oursubscribers acounterpart or fac-simile, as far asthe art of thelithographer canrender and eluci-date it, of afinished paintingfrom nature, exe-cuted with scrupu-lous exactitude and veracity ; both in line and colour,under the most suitable magnifying power, and asa special feature and of equal importance—the bestand highest conditions of illumination. The selectionof subjects will be made exclusively from objec
Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . th short de-scription. Themain purpose ofthe series is toplace before oursubscribers acounterpart or fac-simile, as far asthe art of thelithographer canrender and eluci-date it, of afinished paintingfrom nature, exe-cuted with scrupu-lous exactitude and veracity ; both in line and colour,under the most suitable magnifying power, and asa special feature and of equal importance—the bestand highest conditions of illumination. The selectionof subjects will be made exclusively from objectsessentially popular;—easily obtained and prepared,or purchaseable as a slide. Each article will embody a note of the conditionsnecessary to arrange the subject most favourable forgood observation, and particularly for drawing. No. I.—TiNGis Crassiochari. The family Tingidae is classed in the HeteropterousSection of the Rychota ; a subdivision of the OrderHemiptera of Latreille. There is considerable diversity in the structure ofthe few groups of which this family Js composed,No. 229.—January strikingly apparent in the variation of the reticula-tions of the filmy membranous dilations on each sidsof the thorax, on the scutellum, as well as on thelarge elytra, which entirely cover the dorsal surface ofthe abdomen. In foreign, and in many Englishspecimens these reticulations render them objects ofsingular and especial beauty. The number of species is very great. The majorityare found in tropical countries, but European speci-mens disclose markings and colour, under magnifica-tion, which vie in splendour with the most gorgeousof the beetle tribes ; as in the Orthoptera, the meta-morphosis is imperfect, the young Tingis escapesfrom the egg, in a form more or less closely approach-ing that which it is ultimately destined to assume,and in many cases the principal distinction between thelarva and perfect insect consists only in the possessionof wings (rarely used) by th
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