Insect transformations / [Anon].

  • James Rennie
Date:
1830
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Insect transformations / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ILLUSTRATIONS. Page 1. Comparative figures of a bee and a syrphus 4 2. Cell of a queen of the Tei-mites bcllicusi, broken open in front; the labourers surrounding the queen, and carrying off the eggs 15 3. Groups of eggs of the rose-leaf I'oller on a pane of glass . . 20 4. Plants of sphcerobulus, natural size ..... 26 5. Ditto, magnified view ........ ib. 6. Ditto, sectional view, with the seed just previous to projection . ib. 7. Ditto, with the seed in the act of projection . . . . ib. 8. Ditto, immediately after projection ...... ib. 9. Microscopic views of apple and pear mould .... 30 10. Eggs of a butterfly and of a moth, magnified . . . .41 11. Magnified egg of the angle-shades moth 42 12. Sea egg, natural size ........ ib, 13. Egg of the meadow brown butterfly, magnified ... 43 14. Egg of the brimstone moth, magnified . . . . . ib. 15. Dung-fly, with its eggs magnified, and mode of deposition . 44 16. Lace-winged fly, and position of its eggs on a twig of lilac . .45 17- Ichneumon fly, with its ovipositor, magnified .... 57 18. Ichneumon flies ovipositing ....... 58 19. Generation of ichneumons, seven figures ..... 62 20. Magnified view of a parasite fly (^Evania apendigaster) . . 66 21. Bee parasite (^Stylops Melittce) 67 22. Leaf-mining maggots and fly, four figures 70 23. Gnats forming their egg-boats 74 24. Magnified view of the boat of gnats’ eggs . . . . -75 25. Female gypsey moths, and modes of depositing their eggs, four figures 81 26. Females of the brown and gold-tailed moths, two figures . . 83 27. Tweezers of the brown and gold tailed moths, magnified, twm figures ..........84 28. Spiral groups of eggs of an unknown moth . . . .85 29. Eggs of the lackey moth wound spirally round a twig of hawthorn, natural size and magnified, two figures .... 86 30. Eggs of the coccus, covered with down, and with the bodies of the mothers .......... 89 31. Magnified cochenille insects, male and female, two figures . ib. 32. Eggs of the hawthorn coccus, covered by the body of the dead mother .......... 91 33. Ditto, one of these magnified . ...... ib. 34. Section of ditto, showing the eggs within . . . . . ib. 35. Suspended spiders’ nests, three figures ..... 94 36. Vapourer moth, male and female, and deposition of eggs, three figures 95 37. Drum of the ear, shewing that there is no passage through it to the brain .......... 103 33. Chequered blow fly 110