The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . ods, upon turf, and low herbs at the sides of foot-paths, crawling slowly, and emit-ting a yellow fluid from the joints of their feet when disturbed. They especially inhabit the south of Europe, andthe northern countries of Africa. Amongst those which have the thorax narrowed behind, and nearly of acrescent-shape, and which are the largest of the tribe, is the (Tenebrio) hcviyatus, Linn, [a common British species],from four to eight lines long; black, with th
The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . ods, upon turf, and low herbs at the sides of foot-paths, crawling slowly, and emit-ting a yellow fluid from the joints of their feet when disturbed. They especially inhabit the south of Europe, andthe northern countries of Africa. Amongst those which have the thorax narrowed behind, and nearly of acrescent-shape, and which are the largest of the tribe, is the (Tenebrio) hcviyatus, Linn, [a common British species],from four to eight lines long; black, with the thorax and elytra smooth, finely punctured, and the antenna; andfeet violet-coloured. Its larva is green or violet-coloured, very swollen, with the extremity yellow. It is foundon the Ladys bed-straw. It undergoes its transformations in the earth. Chrysomcla proper, comprises those species of Olivier which are furnished with wings, and in which the maxil-lary palpi, according to the subdivisions established above, have the last joint as large as or larger than the pre-ceding, of an ovoid-truncate or conic-reversed form. Such COLEOPTERA. 553 Chnjsomcla sanguhwfenta [a common British species], four lines long:, black or blue-black, with the sides of thethorax thickened, and the elytra with a broad margin of red. It is found on the earth in fields, at the sides of oot-paths. Chrysomela popiili, Linn., is blue, with red elytra, having a smallblack mark at the tip. It is found in the willow and poplar, onwhich its larva lives, often in society. [It is very abundant inEngland], and forms, with some others, the genus Lina ofMegerle. We finish this tribe with those Chrysomelina; which have themaxillary palpi slender at the tips, and terminated in a 85. — ChrysomeU p,.puii. fig. 1, Lana ; 2, Pupa; Pluedon, Meg. (and Culaphus, Meg.), have the body ovoid or orbicular. Prosocuris, Latr. (Helodes, Fabr.), has the body narrow, more elongated, and the terminal joints of th
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