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That is to say, the Coleoptera, Orthoptera, Neuroptera, Lepidoptera, etc., are in my opinion, more nearly allied to one another than they are to the Poduridæ or Smynthuridæ. On the other hand, we certainly cannot regard the Collembola as a group equivalent in value to the Insecta.
I have taken the rather heavy-bodied female by throwing a stone at it and causing it to fall within reach, but the male is more active on the wing, and it was long before I obtained a specimen. Amongst the insects of Chontales none are more worthy of notice than the many curious species of Orthoptera that look like green and faded leaves of trees.
They send me all sorts of trumpery, he said, Orthoptera and Lepidoptera; as if a coleopterist a scarabeeist cared for such things. This business is no boy's play to me. The insect population of the world is not even catalogued yet, and a lifetime given to the scarabees is a small contribution enough to their study.
Pascoe, and the Hispidæ, with the five following families, by Mr. Baly; these two gentlemen are well acquainted with the above tribes of beetles, and kindly supplied me with the names of the Ceylon species. Order ORTHOPTERA. "These insects in Ceylon have mostly a tropical aspect.
It goes without saying that the moment the huntress emerged from the ground I proceeded to dig up the track. The Mole-cricket was no longer there. The Tachytes had come too late; and so had I. Well, how right was I to define the Tachytes as a Locust lover! What constancy in the gastronomic rules of the race! And what tact in varying the game, while keeping within the order of the Orthoptera!
These insects belong among the orthoptera an order including species whose transformations are less complete than in other groups, and whose larval and pupal forms are very active, and closely resemble the imago.
Siebold, C.T., von, on the proportion of sexes in the Apus; on the auditory apparatus of the stridulent Orthoptera. Sight, inheritance of long and short. Signal-cries of monkeys. Silk-moth, proportion of the sexes in; Ailanthus, Prof. Canestrini, on the destruction of its larvae by wasps; difference of size of the male and female cocoons of the; pairing of the.
Stretch, Mr., on the numerical proportion in the sexes of chickens. Stridulation, by males of Theridion; of Hemiptera; of the Orthoptera and Homoptera discussed; of beetles. Stripes, retained throughout groups of birds; disappearance of, in adult mammals. Strix flammea. Structure, existence of unserviceable modifications of. Struggle for existence, in man.
In all these particulars, the mandible of Lepisma is comparable with that of certain Coleoptera and Neuroptera. So also are the maxillæ and labium, though we are not aware that any one has indicated how close the homology is. The accompanying figure of the maxilla of a beetle may serve as an example of the maxilla of the Coleoptera, Orthoptera and Neuroptera.
The most ancient Insects would probably have most resembled these wingless larvae of the existing Orthoptera. The contrary supposition that the oldest Insects possessed a "complete metamorphosis," and that the "incomplete metamorphosis" of the Orthoptera and Hemiptera is only of later origin, is met by serious difficulties.
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