A decade of curious insects : some of them not describ'd before, shewn in their natural size, and as they appear enlarg'd before the Lucernal microscope, in which the solar apparatus is artificially illuminated : With their history, characters, manners, and places of abode, on ten quarto plates, and their explanations : drawn and engraved from nature (1773)
Hill, John, 1714?-1775, Barber, Herbert Spencer, 1882-1950, former owner DSI · London : Printed for the author, in St. James's-Street, and sold by B. White, in Fleet-Street; P. Elmsly, in the Strand; Parker, in Cornhill; Baldwin, in Pater-Noster-Row; Ridley, St. James's Street; and J. Balfour, at Edinburgh · leaf 22
ine po-liil:id brown. This feems unqueftionably the Sphex Peftinipes of the SyftemaNaturss. It is drawn here, as fliewn by the fourth glafs of the lucernaln::icrofcope; not magnifyd in any vaft degree; but fufficiently tofhew all its parts. Creatures much fmaller require often larger figuresto… … /o/i/// /t.ViBc/ Smtr<yf Sp/teor./e/r/irn/:?i\r [ ] 2. THE TURNER SAVAGE.SPHEX SPIRIFEX. PLite 4. Charafler of the Species. The BoDV is joind to the trunk, by a long fmall thread. The Antlers have ten joints; and they fpread out, and grow fmallto the point. The Feet are jointed, and equally…
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