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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    C apu tinus* 2 -macula¬ tus. Sinuatus. Di/par. Signatus. * Dome pii - cus. i' ol-V ulliS» Minutus. Rufcornis* INSECTS. COLEOPTERA. 3. Bermeftcs. 85 legs fhort dull ferniginous: fore-thighs thick, comprefled emarginate beneath, the tip dilated, rounded: Jhells fometimes pundured. Black; fhells'and abomen rufous: thorax emarginate retufe. Bojiricbus niger Geoff. Inf. I. tab 3. fg i. Inhabits £uropet in the decayed trunks of trees. Thorax gibbous, rough, with a large white fpot dotted with black each fide: fhells i-fpined behind. Inhabits France. Oliaj. Inf 77. tab. 2 fg 14. Ihorax gibbous muricate: fietis reticulate black with an obtufe fpine before the tip. Thorax gibbous muricate: fhells at the tip retufe fmuate. Inhabits France, lefs than the laft. Antennas yellow : thorax black : fie Us with a large finuofity. Shells retufe toothed : body pitchy: thorax gibbous, toothed before Inhabits St. Thomas Hand. Head fmall in heeled : antennae yellowifh: Jhells naked, pitchy with 3 teeth behind. Black ; thorax gibbous, rough before: fhanks teflaceous. Inhabits Germany in trunks of trees. Thorax fubvillous: jhells ftriate, entire: legs black: fianh teflaceous. Black ; thorax teflaceous with 2 black dots and a line in the middle: fhells pale with a black line behind. Inhabits Germany: half the fize of D. Capucinus. Thorax downy: ft ells pundured, ftriate, the future black. Black ; fhells grey, edged round with black: thorax gibbous, covered with ferruginous down. Inhabits Europe. Geoff. Inf. 1. t.i,f.6. This is the little inied which makes the round holes in our wooden furniture, reducing it to powder. Black, naked, polifhed: legs pitchy. Inhabits France : fmall, cylindrical. Black ; fhells entire, pitchy: thorax rough before. Inhabits Heuxt Zealand : fmall. Antennai yellowifh: thorax rounded, gibbous, rough, with railed dots: fhells naked : legs teflaceous, Brown ; head retraced : antennae and legs rufopS. ' Inhabits