DIY History | Transcribe | Scholarship at Iowa | The terrestrial Adephaga of Iowa (Part 2) by Fanny Chastina Thompson Wickham, 1895 | The terrestrial Adephaga of Iowa by Fanny Chastina Thompson Wickham, 1895, Page 413

Transcribe
Translate

The terrestrial Adephaga of Iowa (Part 2) by Fanny Chastina Thompson Wickham, 1895

The terrestrial Adephaga of Iowa by Fanny Chastina Thompson Wickham, 1895, Page 413

[page]399[/page]

wing [find?]. (Figs. 5, 5a, Pl. [XV?].)
     The larva has the curious habit when disturbed of lifting the forepart of the body so that all the feet are in the air and of maintaining this position for some minutes.
Length of time in pupal state: ten days.
[underlined]Ciptinus janthinipernsis[/underlined] Dej. Sp. Gen. V. 412, 1831.

[underlined]Brachynus janthinipernsis[/underlined] Lec. Prod. Acad. Nat. Sci. 525, 1862.

Wickham, S. U. I., Nat. Hist. Bull., II, no 4, 430, 1890.

157. [underlined]Brachynus minutus[/underlined], Harr. 
     Thorax, dark ferruginous, oblong-cordate elytra blackish purple, [contur?] and ventral segments [fusinous?].
     Head, thorax, and feet dark ferruginous, almost cast [aurous?]. [Anterenae?] [?fusinous?], except the two basal joints which are ferruginous. Head with two longitudinal indentations between the eyes. Thorax obling-cordate, anterior angles sub-acute, disc very convex, middle longitudinally impressed. Elytra blackish purple, with a

Saving...

[page]399[/page] wing [find?]. (Figs. 5, 5a, Pl. [XV?].) The larva has the curious habit when disturbed of lifting the forepart of the body so that all the feet are in the air and of maintaining this position for some minutes. Length of time in pupal state: ten days. [underlined]Ciptinus janthinipernsis[/underlined] Dej. Sp. Gen. V. 412, 1831. [underlined]Brachynus janthinipernsis[/underlined] Lec. Prod. Acad. Nat. Sci. 525, 1862. Wickham, S. U. I., Nat. Hist. Bull., II, no 4, 430, 1890. 157. [underlined]Brachynus minutus[/underlined], Harr. Thorax, dark ferruginous, oblong-cordate elytra blackish purple, [contur?] and ventral segments [fusinous?]. Head, thorax, and feet dark ferruginous, almost cast [aurous?]. [Anterenae?] [?fusinous?], except the two basal joints which are ferruginous. Head with two longitudinal indentations between the eyes. Thorax obling-cordate, anterior angles sub-acute, disc very convex, middle longitudinally impressed. Elytra blackish purple, with a