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The naturalist's and traveller's companion, containing instructions for discovering & preserving objects of natural history and for promoting inquiries after human knowledge in general / [Anon].
- John Coakley Lettsom
- Date:
- 1774
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The naturalist's and traveller's companion, containing instructions for discovering & preserving objects of natural history and for promoting inquiries after human knowledge in general / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![plants with tubular flowers. Infects of this ipecies feldom fit to feed, but continue vibrating on the wing, while they thruft the tongue or probofcis into the flowers. IV. Infers of this clafs (a) are found in „ v/oods (£), hedges, meadows, land-banks, walls, pales, fruits, and umbelliferous flowers fome (c) fly about lakes and rivers in the day. V. The fifth divifion (d) including wafps (<?), bees, (/J, &c. may be feen about hedges (g), fhrubs, flowers, and fruits. Wafps and bees are the only winged infects that have any great degree of poifon in them *, they fhould therefore be taken with a pair of forceps, and handled cautioufly on account of their flings, which are dangerous. Some (h) of this divifion have ftings, but no poifon, and are to be found on the flowers of umbelliferous plants, when the fun fhines hot in the middle of the day ; at which time others (/) are feen on fand-banks, walls, and pales. VI. Flies of various kinds conflitute the next clafs (k); they fly about the tops of trees (/), (a) Neuroptera, from vzvqov, a nerve, and a wing, have four membraneous tranfparent naked wings, ge¬ nerally like network, as in the Panorpa Coa, fig. 4. {b) Myrmeleon, hemerobius, pearl-fly. Raphidia, camel- fly. (c) Libellula, dragon-fly. Ephemera, may-fly. Phry- ganea, fpring-fly. (d) Hymenoptera, from vum> a membrane, and 'rjtyov d- wing. Infects with four membraneous wings, tail fur- nilhed with a king ; as in the Tenthredo, fig. 5. (<?) Vefpa, waflp. (f) Apis, bee. (g) Tenthredo, flaw-fly. Sirex, tailed-wajp. Ichneumon, ichneu?non-fly. Sphex, ichneutnon- 'pjaflp. Vefpa. Apis, {b) Mutilla, naked-bee. (z) Chryiis. (k) Diptera, from JVey two, and ir']%<>ovy a wing, are fuck as pave only two wings, and poilers, as in the fly, fig. 6. (/) Oeflrus, gad-fly. Mufca, fly. Tahanus, whame. fdippobofca, horJe-fly.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30511495_0001_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
