Identifier: insectsathomebe00wood (find matches)
Title: Insects at home; being a popular account of insects, their structure, habits and transformations
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS
Subjects: Entomology
Publisher: New York, Scribner
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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hich had been made by a previous occupier of thetube. Some further details of this insect are given on WoodcutXXXI. Fig. b shows the lateral view of the female abdomenin a fresh insect, and c is the same portion of a dried specimen.Fig. d shows the abdomen as seen from beneath, and Fig. eshows the end of the male abdomen. Some of the Ichneumons have wonderfully long and slenderovipositors. One of them, Rhyssa persuasoria, is shown onPlate X. Fig. 5, one being seen in the act of depositing hereggs, and the other to be flying. In thi^ genus the abdomenIs without a footstalk, long, convex, and furnished with a very PLATE X.PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA. 1. Pezomachua zonatus and nests of Spider. 2. Pezomaclius fasciatua. 3. Trogus atropos. 4. Rhyssa persuasoria. 5. Ehyssa depositing eggs, 6. Chelonus oculator (rather magnified).Caterpillar of Deaths Head Moth. In Middle. Plants :— Willow. Above. Dog-grass ( Cynomrm). In Middle, with mud-nests of Spider. Wood Sorrel (^Oxalis acetosella). Below.
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THE PRESERVEES OF THE CABBAGE. 325 long ovipositor. The present species is nearly as variable insize as the Pimpla which has just been described. Its colouris black, diversified by bright yellow spots along the sides ofthe thorax and body, as seen in the illustration. Like someother Ichneumons with very long ovipositors, it is parasitic onlarvae which burrow into solid wood. On Plate X. Fig. 6, is seen a magnified figure of a curiousinsect, called Chelonus oculator. In this genus there are twosubmarginal cells, the first of which is not complete. Theeyes are hairy. This species is not a common insect, and seemsto be a local and recurrent one. Mr. F. Smith tells me that inone day he took more than fifty specimens, by sweeping the grasson the top of the cliffs at Lowestoft, and that he has hardly everseen as many since as he took on that one occasion. Thecolour of the insect is black, some specimens, particularly themales, having a yellow band across the abdomen. It is, how-ever, very v

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