Volume 2

A general system of nature, through the three grand kingdoms of animals, vegetables, and minerals ... / By Sir Charles Linné: translated from Gmelin, Fabricius, Willdenow, &c. Together with various modern arrangements and corrections. With a life of Linné ... and a dictionary ... of the terms ... of natural history, by William Turton.

  • Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778.
Date:
1806
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Credit: A general system of nature, through the three grand kingdoms of animals, vegetables, and minerals ... / By Sir Charles Linné: translated from Gmelin, Fabricius, Willdenow, &c. Together with various modern arrangements and corrections. With a life of Linné ... and a dictionary ... of the terms ... of natural history, by William Turton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Shield emarginate, with a (mall ereft horn in the centre : thorax with a broad imprefied point each fide : Jhells (friate. Is probably a variety of the iafl. Caelatus. Thorax 3-horned, the middle-one 3-toothed : horn of the head recurved, long, 1-toothed within. Inhabits the Cape. Voet. Coleopt. tab. 33‘Jig- 6. Lefs than Sc. lunaris» Shield rounded, the horn cpmpreffed, j with a ftr.ong incumbent tooth in the middle within : thorax elevated, retufe each fide; Jhells hardly (friate. Selzebub. Thorax with a triple prominence : head 3-hornpd, the mid¬ dle one larger. Inhabits America. Olivier's Infects, 1. tab. 14* fg. 136. Shield rounded, fc^rcely emarginate : horn of the head (bort, with 2 fmaller horns at the bafe : Jhells flriate : jniddle fianhs clavate, toothed. Bifafcia- Thorax with a triple prominence : horn of the head erech : tus. fhells black, with 2 rufous bands* Inhabits Coromandel. Olivier's Infects, 1, tab. 13. fg. n^. Shield rounded, entire, black, with a fhort obtule horn in the middle: thorax black, polifhed, punflate : bands on the Jhells hardly reaching the future. Sinon. Thorax 4-toothcd : horn of the head recurved, fubulate. Inhabits Africa. Olivier's Infects, 1. tab. 9.fig. ny. Body brown, half the fize of Sc. lunaris : Jhield 2-toothed. Faunus. Thorax 4-horned, the middle ones very fhort: horn of the head recurved, ferrate. Inhabits Cayenne. Olivier's Infects, 1 .tab. \o. fig. 87. Shield rounded, entire: thorax gibbous, retufe at the {ides, rounded behind, with 2 finali impreffed dots : Jhells fulcate. 'Tarandus. Thorax 4-homed ; head with a compreffed horns. Inhabits Eajl India : finall, black. Shield (lightly angular, black, with an elevated line behind, which is terminated each fide by a fhort horn: thorax black, with 4 equal horns, the middle ones connefted 3t the bafe : Jhells teilaceous, black at the future : legs teffaceous. , ;'V ■ ■ I Capucinus. Thorax 4-horned: horn of the head recumbent, 1-tooth- ed each fide. Inhabits India. Olivier's Infeet's t. lab. 2. fig. 12.