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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    Catta. Thorax 2-toothed before: fliield with 2 raifed tranfverfe carinate lines. Inhabits Coromandel. Olivier’s Infects, 1. tab. 23. fg. 201. Shield {lightly emarginate : thorax brafly, furrounded with a yellowiih edge, impreffed with a dot each fide : jhclls ftriate, brown, edged with yellowiih : thighs yellow, with'a large black loot. A Rofalius. Thorax 2-horned before, elevated and 3-horned behind : horn of the head comp relied, ferrate. Inhabits South America. Ammon. Thorax 3-toothed: horn of the head recurved: fhells ftriate. Inhabits America. Olivier7 s hi fells, 1. tab. 12. fg. 111. Shield rounded, emarginate, with a projecting, {harp, recurved horn : thorax fmooth, with 3 teeth, the middle one larger ; fulls with crenate {tripes. Midas. Hama- dr las. Thorax 3-horned : fliield linuate 2-horned. Inhabits America. Olivier’s Infects, 1. tab. 30.fig. 183. Shield projecting, wrinkled, with a broad hollow in the middle: horns 2, fhort, ereCt, and 2 denticles in the middle : thorax punctured, rough with ferruginous hairs ; the horns depref- fed, crenate at the fides, the middle ones broadef, emarginate : fhells ftriate» Thorax 3-horned, the middle one flat, acute, 2-toothed: fliield refledtcd, 2-horned. Inhabits the Cafe of Good Hope: larger than the la(t. Olivier’s Infects, 1. tab. 10. fg. 92. tab. 23. fig. 92. Shield rounded, entire, with 2 fhott, obtule, erfeCt horns in the middle : thorax with a large hollow each fide ; fhells ftriate, with 3 denticles at the bale. m Lunaris. Thorax 3-horned, the middle one obtufe, bifid : horn of the head eredt: fliield emarginate. Inhabits Europe, on heaps of dung. Donovan’s Englifh Infects, v. plate igg. fig.g. Olivier’s Infects, 1, 3. tab. 5. fig. 36. Shield horned in ea&h fex : thorax of tht female unarmecL Emargina- Thorax unequal, {lightly 3-horned: horn of the head tusa eredt, emarginate. Inhabits Europe : very much refembles the laft. Olivier’s Infects7 1 ,tab, 8./*£. 64. Degcer. tab, to.fig. t*