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 26
ur of rufty iron; but there is a fkin of yel-low covering part of it from the end of the thread.The Air-holes are black. The Legs are partly brown, and partly yellow. TheWings are of a dufky brown. The Sting is yellow. The drawing of this, as of the former, is not greatly magnifyd ,the fame fourth… … ,S/)Aetx- S/yiri/eac T/ie^Tle^nen Sa^/^zf^ [ 3 ] GENUS III. ANT-EATER.MYRMELEON. Charafter of the Genus. The Mouth is formd of Jaws, with two long Tuflcs. The Antlers are club fafhiond j and there are four long Feelers, The Wings hang down. The Tail is armd with a pair of Knippers, in the Male. I.…
Insects · Microscopy
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