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Show 74 INSECTA. h · t in their habits furnished with eyes, and appear to d'ffer somew a 1 1 1 roximate more c ose y from the others, and 1. 0 t h1' S I· espect' to app to our A nts. . d these Insec t s as a great The Negroes and Hottentots consl. er 1' or more readily with d with qutck· tme, delicacy. They are destroye . bitations. . . arsem. c, w hich is thrown i.n to trh eird h ian the sou th 0 f France, hve m The two following species, .oun the interior of various trees. Mant. II, v, k. Glossy· T. luci~'ttgum, Ross., Faun. Etru~c.,h us with the rib more • 'J. • what dlap ano ' . black. wings bJ•owmsh, some t nnre tibire and tarsi, obscu' re; superior extreml· t y of the an e ' pale-russet. . lti lication in the work-shops Such has been its excessive mu p Rochefort, where it does f the navy-yard at and store-houses o . . . ossible to destroy it. . much injury, that It lS Imp . ly differs from the lucifu. T. jlavico lle , F a b • T. his speCies oInt is very injuri· ous t 0 the gum in the colour ?f lts :borax. Olive, particularly m Spam. f h' genus Termes among Linnreus has P 1a ce d the larvr. e . o IS b" 1 'th the Hemero n. · d indiVldua s WI . the .R.ptera, and the wmge h e been but very Imper· The species foreign to Europe ~v ds several under the fectly characteri. zed · Linnreus con.oun name of Termea fatale(l). . b'a.rticulated, and the T tinre the tarsi are 1 r In the remaining erme - • The antennre consist o . d' . t and very shorl. 11 d labial palpi m tsUnc f the trunk is very sma ' an about ten joints, the first segment o the inferior wings are smaller than the others. They form the genus L t Fab _ Termes, Hemerobius, Lin. Psocus, a. · . h a short and extremely soft body And are very small Insects wit . b k d Their head is that is frequently inflated, or as tf hump· ac e . (l) See Lat., Gen. crust. et Insect., III, P· 203, and the Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., article Termea. t . f Europe and of Afri~a, analogous Certain Insects from the southern cou~ r•e.sdo tl the thorax· where the tarsi . b t. h' h the head ts WI er lan ' . to the Termttes, u m w tc d th bdomen or are wantmg; are triarticu]ated, t h e w·m gs h ar dly extend beyon . et" ab ' are the widest; wh e re where the legs are compresse d ' and the two anterior 1 d1 z fi the genus I ba ve the simple eyes are wanting, and the ~borax is elo~gate ' o;~MBU. it is figured indicated in my Fam. Nat. du Reg. Amm., under t e name o ' in the great work on Egypt. NEUROPTERA. 75 large, their antennre setaceous, and the maxillary palpi salient. Their wings are tectiform and but slightly reticulated or simply veined. They are extremely active and live under the bark of trees, in wood, &c. The following species is commonly found in books and collections of Insects and plants. P. pulsatorius; Termea pulsatorium, L.; Schrefl'., Elem. Entom., cxxvi, 1, 2. Usually apterous; yellowish white; eyes and some small spots on the abdomen, russet. It was thought to produce that faint noise resembling the tick of a watch frequently heard in our houses, and of which we have spoken while on the genus Anobium-thence the origin of its specific name( I). 5. The PERLIDEs, in which the tarsi are triarticulated, and the mandibles almost always partly membranous and small. The inferior wings are wider than the others, and doubled at their inner margin. They com prise the genus PERLA, Geo:ff. Their body is elongated, narrow and flattened; the head is tolerably large, the antennre are setaceous, and the maxillary pal pi very salient. The first segment of their trunk is nearly squa1·e, and the wings are crossed and laid horizontalJy on the body; the abdomen terminates as usual by two articulated setre. Their larvre are aquatic and inhabit sheaths or cases, which they construct in the manner of those formed by the Insects of the ensuing family, and in which they pass into the state of nymphs. They undergo their ultimate metamorphosis in the commencement of spring. N EMOURA, Lat. The Nemourre differ from the Perlre proper in their very apparent labrum, corneous mandibles, the almost equal length of the joints (1) See Lat., Gen. Crust. et Insect., lll, p. 207; Fab., Supp., Entom. Syst., and the Monograph of this genus in the Illust. Icon. des Insect., dec. I, of Coquebert. In the fourth volume of the 1\fagasin der Entomologie of M. Germar, we find some anatomical observations on the common species-pukatoriu1. |