The natural history of British insects : explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, economy, &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 . C 13 ] PLATE XLII. FIG. I. ICHNEUMON RAMIDULUS. Hymenoptera. Wings four; generally membraneous. Tail of the females armedwith a fting. GENERIC CHARACTER. Ichneumon. Jaws, without tongue. Antennae of more than 30joints, long, filiform, vibrating. Sting within a bivalve
The natural history of British insects : explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, economy, &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 . C 13 ] PLATE XLII. FIG. I. ICHNEUMON RAMIDULUS. Hymenoptera. Wings four; generally membraneous. Tail of the females armedwith a fting. GENERIC CHARACTER. Ichneumon. Jaws, without tongue. Antennae of more than 30joints, long, filiform, vibrating. Sting within a bivalve ftieath. SPECIFIC CHARACTER, Tawny brown. Thorax beneath, and extremity of the abdomen,black. Abdomen curved and compreffed. F I G. II. Ichneumon Raptorius. SPECIFIC CHARACTER, Head, thorax, and extremity of the abdomen black ; center fpot ofyellow on the thorax; and two firft divifions of the abdomen brightroange. Legs black and brown. Ichneumons 14 PLATE XLII. Ichneumons are the moil voracious of all the winged Infccls;—intheir nature, robuft and powerful, and armed with a formidable fting;they are the dread, and deftroyer of other tribes, and mortal enemiesto each other; like the animal * whence their fignlncant appellation isderived, they exift by rapine and plunder, and fupport their infantoffspring on the vitals
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