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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    49 Sutura. Bicolora- tus. Barbatus. Elatus, Glacialis. Luridus. Striatus. Triftis. * Green ; future of the fhells yellowifh. Inhabits New Zealand. Olivier’s Injects, i, rj. 7. Jg. 80, Edges of the thorax a little yellowifh, obtufely angled behind : Jhells fmooth, fubftriate : breajl and abdomen covered with white down : Jlernum proje&ing. pointed: legs green, tarji ferruginous. Smooth, green, beneath teftaceous: legs golden at the ends. Inhabits the Cape. Olivier’s InfeEls, 1, 5. tab. 7.Jg. 86. Body above green, fmooth, opake, immaculate, beneath dull, teftaceous with a braffy tinge : thighs paler, shanks and tar ft golden. Smooth, black, polifhed : laft fegment of the abdomen . bearded, a little prominent. Inhabits India. Smooth, teftaceous: head, future of the fhells and hind- fhanks black : fhield refledted. Inhabits Tranquebar ; fize of Sc. punftatus. Head black: Jhield and eyes whitifh : thorax with a final!, brown fpot each fide : fcutel teftaceous edged with black ; Jhells fmooth : legs teftaceous, hind-Jhdnks black. Smooth, teftaceous: back of the thorax and fhells black. Inhabits Tranquebar: lefs than Sc. folftitialis. Head black : lides of the thorax teftaceous with a black dot : Jhells with a common broad dorfal black line : legs teftaceous ; hind-fianks black. Smooth, pitchy : antennas and legs teftaceous. Inhabits America. Olivier’s Infells, 1, 5. tab. 6. Jg. 61. Body dufky : Jhield emarginate. Thorax black, with a pale margin : fhells grey {potted with black. Head black : Jhield nearly entire : legs black. Smooth, braffy: fhells ftriate, the future and 4 lines coppery. Inhabits America. Olivier’s Injects, 1, 5. tab. 6. Jg. 65. Shells with 10 grooves : body beneath and legs black» Thorax downy, dufky: fhells fmooth, teftaceous: fcutel white* Inhabits North America. Scutel rounded : body dufky,