Identifier: arcanaentomologi122west (find matches)
Title: Arcana entomologica, or, Illustrations of new, rare, and interesting insects
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893 Casey, Thos. L. (Thomas Lincoln), 1857-1925, former owner. DSI Dodge, O. M., former owner. DSI Goronovitsch, Nicolas Wassiliévitsch, former owner. DSI Schaus, William, 1859- , former owner. DSI Bradbury & Evans, printer
Subjects: Entomology Insects Insects
Publisher: London : William Smith
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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aves she made a butterfly,With excellent device and wondrous slight, Fluttering among the olives wantonly, That seenid to live, so like it was in sight— The velvet nap which on his wings doth lie,The silken down with which his back is dight; His broad outstretched horns, his airy thighs, His glorious colours, and his glistening eyes. His head two deadly weapons fixed bore,Strongly out-lanced towards either side, Like two sharp spears, his enemies to gore :Like as a warlike brigandine applide To fight, lays forth her threatful pikes aforeThe engines which in them sad death do hide ; So did this fly outstretch his fearful horns, Yet so as him their terrour more adorns. What more felicity can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty;And to be lord of all the works of Nature, To reign in th1 air from earth to highest sky; # # * # * To take whatever thing doth please the eye !Who rests not pleased with such happiness,Well worthy he to taste of wretchedness. (Spenser.) *p> ?
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11 PLATE IV. DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GENUS BELONGING TO THE FAMILY OFTHE LOCUSTS. The family of the locusts, Locustid^e, Leach ; (Acridites, Latr.,Serv.; Acridiodea, Burm.;) is one of very great extent, and con-tains many species remarkable for their extraordinary powers ofdevastation, (it being now ascertained that other species besidesthe L. migratoria migrate in vast swarms, spreading alarm through-out their route,) as well as many others, which, from their remarkableforms and brilliant colours, do not fail to attract attention. The distribution of the family into sub-families and genera hasbeen but comparatively little attended to; and it is greatly to beregretted that the works of Burmeister and Serville appeared almostsimultaneously, so that a considerable diversity exists between them,not only in the nomenclature of the genera and species, but also intheir classification and the limits of the genera. Two of Servillessub-families, namely, the Truxalides * and the Conophori f, appea

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