 | William Kirby, William Spence - Insects - 1826 - 792 pages
...jaws with which they are provided. Reaumur once found one of them thus holding and devouring a large tadpole; — a sufficient proof that Swammerdam was...its figure in the different genera. In the larva of Libettula Fab., such as Libellula depressa, &c. it is of the shape above described ; so exactly resembling... | |
 | Gill's scientific, technological and microscopic repository - 1829 - 424 pages
...jaws with which they are provided. Reaumur once found one of them thus holding and devouring a large tadpole; a sufficient proof that Swammerdam was greatly...armed and fitted for carnivorous purposes. Such an under lip as I have described, is found in the tribe of dragon flies (libellulina), varied, however,... | |
 | James Rennie - Insects - 1830 - 440 pages
...jaws with which they are provided. R«aumur once found one of them thus holding and devouring a large tadpole ; a sufficient proof that Swammerdam was greatly...tremendously armed and fitted for carnivorous purposes. In the larvee of Libellula^ FABR., it is so exactly resembling a mask, that if entomologists ever went... | |
 | James Rennie - Insects - 1830 - 448 pages
...which they are provided. Rfeaumur once found one of them thus holding and devouring a large tadpole 5 a sufficient proof that Swammerdam was greatly deceived...imagining earth to be the food of animals so tremendously aumed and fitted for carnivorous purposes. In the larvae of Libellula, FABR., it is so exactly resembling... | |
 | American periodicals - 1848 - 602 pages
...found one of them thus holding and devouring a large tadpole ; a sufficient proof that .Swammerdarn was greatly deceived in imagining earth to be the food of animals so tremendously armed and titled for carnivorous purposes. In the larva* of Libellula, Fabr., it is so exactly resembling a mask,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 638 pages
...jaws with which they are provided. Reaumur once foupd one of them thus holding and devouring a large tadpole ; a sufficient proof that Swammerdam was greatly...tremendously armed and fitted for carnivorous purposes. In the larva? of Libellula, Fabr., it is so exactly resembling a mask, that if entomologists ever went... | |
 | 1849 - 636 pages
...found one of them thus holding and devouring a large tadpole ; a sufficient proof that Svvammerdam was greatly deceived in imagining earth to be the...tremendously armed and fitted for carnivorous purposes. In the larvae of Libellula, Fabr., it is so exactly resembling a mask, that if entomologists ever went... | |
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... arm, catch the prey at which they aim by means of the mandibuliform plates, and then partly refold it so as to hold the prey to the mouth in a convenient position for the operation of the two pairs of jaws with which they are provided. Reaumur once... 