A761.17    Beagle Library:     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.   Text

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

A790.02    Beagle Library:     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.   Text

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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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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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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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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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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, 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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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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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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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