The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . es to devour the young of Humming-birds, &c. Latreille published an elaborate memoir upon this genus in the Nouvetles Annates du Museum, vol. i.,and more recently M. Walckenaer has described thirty-six species of this genus in his Ilistoire Naturelle desInscctes Aptcres. The M. nidulans, which is suflSciently abundant in the West Indian islands, has been figured, together with its nest,by Mr. Kirby in his Bridgewater Treatise. It is also figured in Griffiths
The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . es to devour the young of Humming-birds, &c. Latreille published an elaborate memoir upon this genus in the Nouvetles Annates du Museum, vol. i.,and more recently M. Walckenaer has described thirty-six species of this genus in his Ilistoire Naturelle desInscctes Aptcres. The M. nidulans, which is suflSciently abundant in the West Indian islands, has been figured, together with its nest,by Mr. Kirby in his Bridgewater Treatise. It is also figured in Griffiths translation of the Rcgne Animal, butregarded as an undescribed species, named N. nitida. Mr. Sells has communicated some curious observations onit and its nest to the Entomological Society of London.] Those species (of Theraphoses) which have the palpi inserted on an inferior dilatation on the outside of themaxilliP, and 5-jointed; the tongue very small in Atypus, but which becomes longer and advanced between themaxilla; in the following genera, which is its general character: the last joint of the palpi in both sexes long and.
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