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Introduction.--Stages in the Life of an Insect.--Classification of Insects.--Characters derived from the Wings; from the parts of the Mouth; from the Metamorphoses.--The Classes of Insects: Hymenoptera, Strepsiptera, Coleoptera, Euplexoptera, Orthoptera, Thysanoptera, Neuropte...
"Personne," says Carl Vogt, "en Europe au moins, n'ose plus soutenir la Création indépendante et de toutes pièces des espèces," and though this statement is perhaps not strictly...
6. CHAPTER I.About forty years ago the civil and ecclesiastical authorities of St. Fernando in Chili arrested a certain M. Renous on a charge of witchcraft, because he kept some caterpillars...
9. CHAPTER IV.The question still remains, Why do insects pass through metamorphoses? Messrs. Kirby and Spence tell us they "can only answer that such is the will of the Creator;"[39] this, ho...
8. CHAPTER III.In the preceding chapters we have considered the life history of insects after they have quitted the egg; but it is obvious that to treat the subject in a satisfactory manner we...
7. CHAPTER II.The facts recapitulated briefly in the preceding chapter show, that the forms of insect larvæ depend greatly on the group to which they belong. Thus the same tree may harbour la...
5. CHAPTER V.The Origin of Insects.--Mistaken views of Darwinian theory.--Natural selection a _vera causa_.--Application of Darwin's views to Insects.--Similarity of young Crustacea as compa...
4. CHAPTER IV.Origin of Metamorphoses.--Views of Messrs. Kirby and Spence.--Nature of the question.--Young animals often more similar than mature.--Views of Darwin, Herbert Spencer, Johannes...
3. CHAPTER III.The life history of an Insect must be considered as a whole.--Vagueness of the term Larva.--Some larvæ much more advanced than others.--Organs develope in different order, in di...
2. CHAPTER II.Larvæ depend partly on the group to which they belong.--Wood-eating Larvæ.--Larvæ of Lamellicorns.--Larvæ depend also in part on mode of life.--Larvæ of Hymenoptera, of _Sirex_;...
1. CHAPTER I.Introduction.--Stages in the Life of an Insect.--Classification of Insects.--Characters derived from the Wings; from the parts of the Mouth; from the Metamorphoses.--The Classes...