Identifier: transformationso01dunc (find matches)
Title: The transformations (or metamorphoses) of insects (Insecta, Myriapoda, Arachnida, and Crustacea) : being an adaptation, for English readers, of M. Émile Blanchard's "Metamorphoses, moeurs et instincts des insects;" and a compilation from the works of Newport, Charles Darwin, Spence Bate, Fritz Müller, Packard, Lubbock, Stainton, and others
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Duncan, P. Martin (Peter Martin), 1821-1891 Blanchard, Emile, 1819-1900. Metamorphoses, moeurs et instincts des insects Conger, Paul S., former owner. DSI Abbott, Charles C., former owner. DSI
Subjects: Insects Insects Myriapoda Arachnida Crustacea
Publisher: Philadelphia : Claxton, Remsen, and Haffelfinger
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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cJinita; have a rounded and robust body, and threearticulations to their lip. Some have enormous eyes, set closetogether, so that they nearly touch each other in the middleline, and others have their eyes set wide apart. The engraving shows the metamorphosis of ^-Esc/iiia macii-latissivia. On the right one of them is flying; immediately below,in the water, a nymph may be seen projecting her long underlip with its pincers; by its side is a larva in a quiet condition. 358 TRANSFORMATIONS OF INSECTS. and above it, on the leaves, a perfect insect may be seen crawlingout of the skin of the nymph preparatory to taking flight. The Agrionidt^ have slender bodies, and the abdomen is cylin-drical, and in the shape of a rod. They are usually very smalldragon flies, and there is a very common one whose males areof a beautiful blue metallic colour, with a greenish-blue band onthe wings, and whose females are of a most brilliant green colour. When we compare some of thv members of the family of the
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MLTAMORPHOjES OF THE COMMON ANT LION. (AJynHclcoH furmicariinil.) MynndcoiiidiV, or Ant Lions, with the dragon flies, there doesnot appear to be much difference between them, and there arereally very close affinities between the two families, so far astheir adults or perfect insects are concerned. But there arevery considerable distinctions to be noticed in the nature of themetamorphosis and the habits of the larvae. The Mynnclconidculive on dry land in their early conditions of life. They undergocomplete metamorphoses, and their larva;, which are short, squat,and alwa)s carnivorous, are not in the least like the perfect insects. THE MYRMELEONIDAi. 359 Moreover, they usually construct a cocoon when they have attainedtheir full growth, and are transformed into quiet and inactivenymphs. The perfect insects have their wings less reticulatethan the dragon flies, their eyes are smaller, and the antennaehave many articulations. The mandibles are sharp, and the jawsand lip, which are rather

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