. 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 . evous. Theyget into the huts of the natives, where theydestroy provisions, &c. It is impossible to resisttheir tormenting attacks. A small reddish-yellow ant called Puccliusisi by the Indians,pursues and destroys them. A very elegantlittle bird, like our wren, and des
. 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 . evous. Theyget into the huts of the natives, where theydestroy provisions, &c. It is impossible to resisttheir tormenting attacks. A small reddish-yellow ant called Puccliusisi by the Indians,pursues and destroys them. A very elegantlittle bird, like our wren, and described byTschudi under the name of Troglodytes audax,wages war against these cockroaches. TheIndians find the sound to resemble closelythe words Acahe la kirea,^ which in theirlanguage means My task is finisliecl; indeed,they have given this name to the Troglodytesas a mark of their observation of its usefulnessin destroying the cockroaches. Section—RAPTORIA. Of this section there is but one family. The rapto-rial legs of the insect sufficiently distinguish the section. Fig. 1-14. Family—MANTID^ {Soothsayers). The Mantidos are most frequently of a green colourwhich, as they hang on the trees watching for theirprey, so closely resemble foliage that it is difficultat times to distinguish them from the leaves. In the.
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