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Fig. 11. l.ucanus cervus {(iiss&i'a.ovC). 



Pa)-<« 0/ //if He«cf.—1. Mandibles, or jaws. 2. Anteniite. 2 a. Scape. 2 5. Club. .3. Labium, or lower lip. 3 a. Labia ra'pi, 

 or lip-feelers. 4. Maxillse, or lower jaws. 4 a. Maxillary palpi, or jaw-feelers. 5. Head, upper surface. 5 «. Eyes. 



5 b. Vertex, or crown. 5 c. Occiput, or back of head. 5 d. Clypeus, or shield. 6. Head, under surface. 6 «. Eyes. 



6 h. Insertion of antennae. 



Paris of Thoriix and Abdomen.—' . Protnotum, or upper surface of thorax. 7 a. Lateral margin. 7 b. Anterior margin. 



7 c. Posterior angles. 7 d. Posterior margin. 7 e. Anterior angles. 8. Prosternom, or under surface of thorax, n a. 

 Sternum. 8 6. Insertion of cos te. 9. Mesothorax and upper surface of abdomen. 9«. Mesothorax alone. 9/;. Abilonien, 

 upper surface alone. 10. Metastemum and Abdomen. 10 a. Metasternum alone. 10 6. Abdomen, under surface alone. 

 10 c. Parapleura, or side-pieces. 10 rf. Epistema, or breast-pieces. 12. ScuteUum. 



Legs. — 11 . Anterior, or first pair of legs. 11 n. Tarsi, or feet. 1 1 A. Tibia, or shank. 1 1 c. Femur, or thigh. 11 rf. Trochanter. 



lie. Coxae. 13. Intermediate pair of legs. 15. Posterior pair of legs. 

 The Wings. — 14. Elytra. 14a. Suture. 14 6. Lateral mai-gui. 14c. Apex. 14 rf. Base. Me. Disk. 16. Wings, folded on 



abdomen. 17. Left wirg expanded. 18. Right wing folded. 



A careful study of these organs, and an endeavour 

 to dissect specimens for himself in a similar way, 

 will be no unprofitable amusement these winter 

 nights for the young naturalist. The author sug- 

 gests another means of faaiiliariziug oneself with 

 the commonest insects, — that ol colouring the wood- 

 cuts and plates of the present volume, after the 

 natural tints and shades of the insects themselves. 

 Tor this purpose both plates and woodcuts have 

 been only faintly shaded ; a scheme, however, which 

 has already drawn down the wrath of some critics, 

 who have evidently not read the introduction to the 



volume, in which this intention is set forth. Of the 

 woodcuts especially we cannot speai; too highly, 

 both for their artistic skill and zoological accuracy. 

 The full-page plates are weaker, and of the coloured 

 frontispiece the less said the better. 



The whole-page plate is from the work, and is, we 

 think, one of the best of its kind. Mr. Fullager's 

 interesting notes, given elsewhere, ou the develop- 

 ment of the Dragon-fly from the pupa-case — as wit- 

 nessed by himself in his own aquarium — will innke 

 the details sufficiently clear. 



" Insects at Home," as its name implies, treats 



