Identifier: newsystemofnatur31792clar (find matches)
Title: A New system of the natural history of quadrupeds, birds, fishes and insects
Year: 1791 (1790s)
Authors: Clark, Austin Hobart, 1880-1954, former owner. DSI
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: Edinburgh : Printed for Peter Hill London : and Thomas Cadell
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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edto the two following ; either we mufl deftroy the infects,or render our clothes difagreeable food for them. The moths may be deftroyed by oil, or the fumes oftobacco. And as wool is never fubjedl to their depre^dations, fo long as it remains upon the flieep, the moll likelj • p.ai Infefl. p. Z04. n. 9S. I Vide Reaumur, Tom. III. & Regne Animale, Tom, II. p. 163, n. 83, I Reaumur,Tom. III. p. 5. JTHE MOTHS. 467 llkelj method of rendering it dlfagreeable, is by reftoringthat greafy fubilance which is taken from it by wafliing,and other procefTes which it undergoes when manufac-tured f. f Reaumur, Tom, III, Mem. iii. 3^3 468 NEUROPTEROUS UTSECXS* GHx^PTER V, Order IV NeuroptefQus hiJeBs, J HIS order contains fix genera of Infects, all of which arediOinguifhed by four naked wings, of a reticulated flruc-ture, and by appendices fpringing from the extremity ofthe abdo:nen, whicli is unarmed with a fling : Thefe ap-pendices are characterillic of the male fes in this order©f animals.
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iUE DRAGON-FLY. 469 Genus I.—Lihelhtla. The Dragon-Fly. Of this tribe of large infe£ls there are twenty-one dif-ferent fpecics remarkable by the formidable apparatuswith which their mouths are armed. Their jaws are al-ways more than two in number, and fiued for gratifyingthat voracity by which tfhe libellulae are diftinguifhed.The antennae are ihorter than the thorax ; the wings arealways extended, and, in fome, meafure feseral inchesfrom tip to tip. The male is dillinguiihed by a kind ofhooked forceps, by which the e:s:tremity of the abdomenis terminated f. The dragon flies are unlverfally known, from thei?large fize, and the frequency with which they everywhere appear. The organs of generation are differentlySituated in the male and female of this tiibe : In the for-mer, they are placed upon the under lide of that part ofthe abdomen which lies between the inferior wings ;while, in the latter, they are found at the tip or end ofthe abdomen. The feafon of love in all infeft;, from

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