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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 15: Insecta (2).
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among them live in the water, and do not issue from it but in the state of the perfect insect. Others are terrestrial. Among the latter some live under the barks of trees; others, concealed in the sand, lay snares for ants, and other insects; others make war upon the aphides. These larv are in general carnivorous, and live solely on other insects. Some are omnivorous, such are those of the termes. Their metamorphoses are not the same in all the species. Some nymphs are immoveable; others stir about
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A761.17
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 17.
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ants. These amphisb na are oviparous.* There is one of Martinique entirely blind. (Amp. C ca. Cuv. ) The LEPOSTERNONS, Spix, are amphisben , the anterior part of whose trunk has underneath a union of some plates which interrupt the rings. They have no pores in front of the anus. Their head is short. Their muzzle a little advanced. TYPHLOPS, Schn., Have the body covered with small imbricated scales, * Amp. Flavescens, Pr. Max, 9th book. May not this be A. Vermicularis ? Spix, xxv. 2. He says oculi
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A790.02
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King, Philip Parker. 1827. Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia. Performed between the years 1818 and 1822. 2 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 2.
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bodies of ants and other small insects. Whether this fluid can be considered a secretion of the plant, as appears really to be the fact with reference to the nepenthes, or pitcher-plant of India*, deposited by it through its vessels into the pitchers; or even a secretion of the ascidia themselves; or whether it is not simply rain-water lodged in these reservoirs, as a provision from which the plant might derive support in seasons of protracted drought, when those marshy lands (in which this
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A790.02
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King, Philip Parker. 1827. Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia. Performed between the years 1818 and 1822. 2 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 2.
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1822. Jan. 5. a repository of food for rapacious insects, as in sarracenia, or the American pitcher-plant; it is also probable that the air, disengaged by these drowned ants, may be important and beneficial to the life of the Australian plant, as Sir James E. Smith has suggested, in respect to the last-mentioned genus, wild in the swamp of Georgia and Carolina. I spent much time in a fruitless search for flowering specimens of cephalotus; all the plants were very small and weak, and shewed no
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A761.16
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 16: Tabular view of classification; index.
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Anthrenus versicolor, xiv. 406 Viennensis, xiv. 406 Anthribus, xv. 66 (Fab.) xv. 20. 53 (Geoff.) xv. 53. 155 Anthrophora, (Fab.) xv. 384 (Lat.) xv. 387. 571 Antichides, xv. 29 Anteon, (Jur.) xv. 367 Antlia, (Kirby) xv. 613 Antliata, (Fab.) xv. 681 Ant-lion, instinct of, xiv. 104 larv of the, xv. 324 manner of feeding of larvae of the, xiv. 66 Ant-lions, eyes of, xiv. 45 metamorphosis of, xiv. 81. 83 Ants, acid of, xiv. 73 add produced by, xiv. 72 anecdotes of exotic, xv. 487 anecdote of fire
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A761.02
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 2: Mammalia (2)
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belly, and the limbs, are covered with silken and whitish hairs. Those on the upper part of the eyes are of a deep brown, those of the temples long and blackish. According to Seba, who seems to have been deceived respecting this point, it inhabits Dutch Guiana, and is supported by fruits, roots, herbs, and the larvae or eggs of ants. Its flesh is white and delicate, and the inhabitants are said to use it as food. D'Azzara suspects, and apparently with good reason, that this animal is the same
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A761.03
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 3: Mammalia (3)
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body. It has but two nails on the fore feet, one of which is very large; the hind feet have four; the fur is woolly, of a uniform brownish-yellow; darker or approaching a red tint along the dorsaL line. This little species resides continually in the trees, where it attacks ants and insects, which retire under the bark. It suspends itself to the branches by means of its prehensile tail, and of the paws, the naked parts of which are constructed for seizing and holding with the same relative force
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 7: Aves (2).
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and it requires much care and difficulty to preserve them any time in cages. The female places her nest on the ground, like the common species. She lays twice a year, about four or five eggs of a clear ash-colour, thick set with brown and blackish spots. The young of this species can seldom be artificially brought up, and still more seldom kept alive for many years. Hashed beef's or sheep's hearts, the eggs of ants, millet, and bruised hemp seed, constitute their most appropriate food. They
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A761.09
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 9: Reptilia.
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, simple, and sharp. The general colour is white, with a small tint of yellowish; and there are about sixty black bands, irregular, transversal, and forming, for the most part, interrupted rings. This reptile is about thirty inches in length at the most. The anguis scytale is an inhabitant of South America, particularly Cayenne and Surinam. It lives on caterpillars, worms, and small insects, but especially on ants. It appears to have the habits of the amphisb na. The negroes are very much in
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A761.09
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 9: Reptilia.
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Fontainbleau, where it was known under the name of aspic. It lives on small quadrupeds, mice, field-mice, lizards, frogs, toads, salamanders, young birds, and insects, such as flies, ants, cantharides, and even scorpions, according to Aristotle. It also feeds on mollusca and worms, and, like all the Ophidians, can support without any material suffering a fast of many months. In many shops of pharmacopolists it is said that vipers have been kept in easks for years without giving them any thing to eat. Like
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A761.13
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 13: Annelida, Crustacea, and Arachnida.
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them, they issue forth immediately, and run off with great agility. Some females form, with the same material, a sort of tent, which becomes the cradle of their posterity, and where the little ones live for some time in common with the mother. Some species resemble ants, in raising their anterior feet and causing them to vibrate very rapidly. The males sometimes betake themselves to combats very singular in their man uvres, but which have no fatal issue. One subgenus, established by M. Rafinesque
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 13: Annelida, Crustacea, and Arachnida.
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the appearance of a triangular and hairy spot, which forms on the centre of the upper part of the abdomen. I had preserved from 1800 to 2000 of these, all which proceeded from the same cocoon. They were all devoured in a single night by some red ants, which, guided by an instinct that set at defiance all my cares, discovered the box in which I had inclosed the spiders, and insinuated themselves into it by means of an almost imperceptible aperture, through which myriads of them passed, one by
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A761.14
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 14: Insecta (1).
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particularly unveil to us the instinct of insects." In very numerous societies of several of these insects, such as the ants, the termites, the wasps, the bees, c., the individuals composing the major part of the population, and which by their labours and vigilance maintain these societies, have been considered as neuters, or devoid of sex. They have also been designated as workers and mules. It is known at present that they are females whose sexual organs or ovar a, have not received a perfect
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A761.14
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 14: Insecta (1).
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, applied on the external organs, following all their contours, and forming for each of them so many special moulds, like the envelope of a mummy, enables us directly to recognize and distinguish them. (pupa obtecta, Lin.) But those flies, c. formed of the dried skin * The flea, the females of the mutilia, and the working ants, with a very few other insects, excepted. [page] 2
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A761.14
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 14: Insecta (1).
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their habits, and much upon our vigilance. There are some of them omnivorous, and of this number are the termites, ants, c. whose ravages are but too well known. Many of those which are carnassial, and the species which live either on cadaverous, or excrementitious substances, may be considered as a benefit from the hand of the Author of Nature, and as compensating in some measure for the lossess and inconveniences we experience from the others. Some insects are employed in medicine, in the arts
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 14: Insecta (1).
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insects, as the ephemera, libellulin , c. Among the insects which live in a social state there are some, which (as the bees) are obliged to choose a dwelling mutually to assist each other in procuring the necessary food, and to accumulate a certain quantity of it to serve as provision for the winter. Others, like the ants, unite and labour in common to seek food, not so much for themselves as for their larv , which are incapable of providing for themselves. Many insects can subsist only on one
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 14: Insecta (1).
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compose the substance of honey, after it has undergone a final preparation in their bodies. Ants seek with avidity the saccharine liquid which is ejected by the pucerons, through two peculiar apertures in the abdomen. Fruits of all descriptions constitute the food of other races. The destruction occasioned by their larv in our orchard and garden fruits, is rather too well known. A species of weevil lives in nuts. More precious fruits, such as olives, and also different grains, serve as aliments to
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 14: Insecta (1).
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insects are, for the most part, in a liquid form though the majority of species are sustained by the juices or fluids of plants and animals, and thus find both food and drink together, yet some are seen to eat and drink at separate times. The fondness of locusts for drinking, was not unknown to the ancients. They seem to seek, with their antenn , the drops of dew which hang upon the leaves, and when they have found them, drink them up immediately. Bees, ants, and other insects, exhibit a similar
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 14: Insecta (1).
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form of gas, which would then be contained by the numerous trach with which the intestinal tube is covered. There are other secretions, however, which take place in insects, but the mode of this separation of humours is very little known. We know, for example, that the acid produced by the ants, and which is analogous to that of vinegar, is disgorged by the insects; that many other animals of the same class, eject or disgorge, at will, certain matters, either f tid or hurtful, at the moment
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 14: Insecta (1).
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the latter production is not peculiar to bees, and that, in many other insects, it is a general transudation from the body; it also appears to form a constituent part of some insects that do not secrete it. A poisonous fluid, producing very unpleasant effects, is secreted by many of these animals. The acid of ants is a very curious phenomenon, as will be seen in the proper place. An acid has been obtained from silkworms, called bombic acid. The powerful scents emitted by insects, whether
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