 The second order of insects consists of such as have wings, but which, when produced from the egg, have their wings cased up in such a manner as not to appear. The third order of insects is of the moth and butterfly kind. The fourth order is of those...  A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature - Page 11by Oliver Goldsmith - 1825Full view - About this book
 | Richard Joseph Sulivan (Sie) - 1794 - 542 pages
...in which it continues hidden, till it comes forth a perfect moth or butterfly. The fourth, are those which come from a worm instead of a caterpillar, and yet go through changes similar with moths and butterflies, but have not the mealy substance. To which may be added, a fifth order,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1807 - 472 pages
...covering, and comes forth a butterfly, adorned with various hues. The fourth order of" winged insects come from a worm instead of a caterpillar, and yet go through the same varieties as those we have just described, yet differing from them in their wings, which are... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1811 - 446 pages
...and butterfly kind, who have four wings, and a mealy substance -of various colours. The fourth, those which come from a worm instead of a caterpillar, and yet go through changes similar with moths and butterflies, but have not the mealy substance. To which may be added, a fifth order,... | |
 | Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831 - 526 pages
...up in such a manner as not to appear. The third order of insects is of the moth and butterfly kind. The fourth order is of those winged insects which...those which moths and butterflies are seen to undergo. To these we add, as a fifth order, a numerous tribe lately discovered, to which naturalists have given... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 432 pages
...up in such a manner as not to appear. The third order of insects is of the moth and butterfly kind. The fourth order is of those winged insects, which...those which moths and butterflies are seen to undergo. To these, we may add a fifth order, a numerous tribe, lately discovered, to which naturalists have... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 440 pages
...up in such a manner as not to appear. The third order of insects is of the moth and butterfly kind. The fourth order is of those winged insects, which...those which moths and butterflies are seen to undergo. To these, we may add a fifth order, a numerous tribe, lately discovered, to which naturalists have... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1854 - 264 pages
...up in such a manner as not to appear. The third order of insects is of the moth and butterfly kind. The fourth order is of those winged insects, which...those which moths and butterflies are seen to undergo. To these, we may add a fifth order, a numerous tribe,, lately discovered, to which naturalists have... | |
 | Natural history - 1854 - 322 pages
...and lastly, bursting forth into its perfect state of moth, or butterfly. The fourth order consists of those winged insects which come from a worm instead of a caterpillar, and yet go through those changes which moths and butterflies undergo. Some of these are furnished with only two wings,... | |
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