The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 486
vas. A description and history of a species of insect, to be complete, should in-clude an account of its person, and of the circumstances attending it, in eachof its four states. This must be, in many cases, an almost unattainable ob-ject ; but it is not the less desirable or necessary for the end… … Classification. Linnaean order, Lepiddptera; section, Nocturna Latreille.Natural order in Newmans system, Cossites : in Ent. Mag., vol. ii. p. 383. Etymology. Cossus: possibly from the same source as cossum, a viru-lent ulcer of the nose : m relation to the insects offensive odour. Lig-niperda,…
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