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 . of a variable form. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Proteus, branching itfelf out in a variety of direiStions. F I G. BOMB A. GENERIC invifible, pellucid, hairy worm. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Changeable, with a fev/ hairs difperfed On the fore part. MulUrs Ani
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 . of a variable form. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Proteus, branching itfelf out in a variety of direiStions. F I G. BOMB A. GENERIC invifible, pellucid, hairy worm. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Changeable, with a fev/ hairs difperfed On the fore part. MulUrs Ani. Inf. Proteus Diffluens, under fome of its changes appears rather a flaape-lefs iriafs, than an animated body j it confifts of gelatinous, pellucidfubftance, replete with dark coloured molecules, which either direft orattend, the internal exertions and adions of the animalculum j it pufliesforth branches of various ftiapes. E 2 Is C 28 ] Is found in fenny fituations, but very rare; the author of the Jmmacula Infujoria^ obferved it only twice. TRICHODA BOMB A. Inconfliant as the former, and nearly as difficult to define; it is fome-titnes fpherical, immediately after it will become oval, Kidney fliaped,&rc. It is very lively, and darts v/ith much velocity; is thick, pellucid,and of a clay colour, or brighter. PLATE n. [ ^9 ]PLATE XLVIIL FIG. CROCATA. DiPTERA. Wings two. GENERIC long. Papi 4, curved. Trunk very fhort. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Black fpotted with yellow. Legs tawny, with black feet, and aWack ring round the pofterior tlnghs. Wings tawny, with a mar-ginal brown fpot. S^. Ent. 748. 5.—Linn. Sy/. Nat. 2. 971. 4.— Fn. Sv. 1739-Geof. Inf. 1. 553. 7. Tah. 19. Fig. Inf. 6. 349. Inf. 72. 4. Scha^ff. Icon. Tab. 126. Fig. cam. 845. F I G. %6 ? PLATE XL VIIL F 1 G. XLTIPULA RIVOSAo SPECIFIC CHARACTER, ferown-grey. Eyes black. Antennae feathered. Wings larger thandie body, with three brown patches near the margin. Tail of the fe
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