. An historical and descriptive account of British America [microform] : comprehending Canada Upper and Lower, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, the Bermudas, and the fur countries, their history from the earliest settlement, the statistics and topography of each district, their commerce ... : to which is added a full detail of the principles and best modes of emigration. Hudson's Bay Company; Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson; Natural history; Sciences naturelles. 290 NOTICES REGARDING THE PRINCIPAL. w. gn It* : i i: nous lists scarcely number more than sixty orthopt
. An historical and descriptive account of British America [microform] : comprehending Canada Upper and Lower, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, the Bermudas, and the fur countries, their history from the earliest settlement, the statistics and topography of each district, their commerce ... : to which is added a full detail of the principles and best modes of emigration. Hudson's Bay Company; Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson; Natural history; Sciences naturelles. 290 NOTICES REGARDING THE PRINCIPAL. w. gn It* : i i: nous lists scarcely number more than sixty orthopterous species. The few American kinds taken by our ex- ploring party, such as Locusta leucostoma and verrucu- lata, and Acrydium graiiulatum, occurred immediately to the north of our Canadian territories. Of the order Nkuroptera, the only North American species reported on by Mr Kirby are a small dragon-fly, Agrion puella, well known in Britain, and Perla bicau- data, likewise a British insect, which in America reaches as far northwards as latitude 68°. The neuroptera in general are insects of an elegant deportment. They fly with great lightness, and are frequently adorned by a variety of colours. The wings are usually naked and transparent, and pervaded by a delicate network or reticulation. But in the genus Phryganea, Linn, the wings are veined in a peculiar manner without reti- culation, and in some degree resembling those of Lepi- doptera, and being moreover covered by short hairs, the species have been removed from the other Neuroptera under the ordinal title of Trichoptera* Of these Phry- ganidse Limnephilus nebulosus and femoralis occur in high latitudes in North The order Hymenoptera is more numerous in these northern countries than either of the two preceding. As it contains the wasps, bees, ants, and ichneumons, it is of more direct utility to man than most others, in as far as it yields us those two invaluable insect products,— wax and honey. We shall he
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