The Insect World Being a Popular Account of the Orders of Insects Together Wit
The Insect World Being a Popular Account of the Orders of Insects Together Wit
Louis Figuier
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His account of them is the most exact and most complete which we have of these insects. * The largest of the species observed is the Termes bellicosus. The workers are a fifth of an inch long, the body soft, and of an extreme delicacy, but the sharp mandibles capable of attacking the hardest bodies. The soldiers are twice as long, and weigh as much as fifteen workers, and may be distinguished by their enormous horned head, armed with sharp pincers. The male weighs as much as thirty workers, and... attains to a length of nearly four-fifths of an inch. * " Some Account of the Termites, " &c. , in the Philosophical Transactions, vol. Ixxi. 1781. NEUROPTERA. 407 m. _ J mf' m 11 D 1 * '- 1 ^^ . "^. I . , ,v, J . Fig- 383- Termes lucifugus. Male (A), Worker (B), Soldier (c), magnified. Fecundated female of Termes bellicosus, natural size, surrounded by workers (ODD D). But the pregnant female leaves all these dimensions far behind. Her abdomen becomes two thousand times as big as the rest of her 4O8 THE INSECT WORLD.
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