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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    I, [ 6 ] f CHARACTERS of INSECTS. I. COLEOPTERA, Upper wings crujlaceouu 1. 2. 5* 3* 6. io. 12. I5* 45- 16. A. Antenna clavate, thicker towards the tip. SCARABAEUS. Lucanus. Synodendron. a. Club lamellate. Fore-fhanks toothed. Two palpigerous tufts under the lip. Jaw i-toothed: lip filiform, palpigerous. D ermefles. Melyris. Byrrhus. Silpha. Tritonia. Hydrophilus. Tetratoma. b. Club perfoliate. Head infle£lecj under the thorax which is flight ly margined. Lip clavate, emarginate. Lip extended, bifid. T1 horax and iliells margined. Anterior feelers hatchet-fhaped. Feelers filiform : jaw bifid, horny. I'eelers unequal: jaw bind, membranaceous. 8. Hifter. 4* Bojlrichus. II. Anthrenus. 13. Nitidula. 18. Coccinclla. 29. Curculio. 24« Paufus. foltd or inflated. Head retradlile within the thorax. Head inflefted under the thorax which is flight- ly margined. 6 Jaw bifid. Fhorax and flielIs margined. Anterior feelers hatchet-fhaped. Snout elongated, horny. Antenna; 2-jointed, the club hooked and in- 28. Brentus. 31. Attelabus. 51. Erodi us. B. Antenna tnoniUform. Sn°ut elongated, horny, flraight. Snout elongated, incurved. 1.ip horny, emarginate.