A handbook of the destructive insects of Victoria, with notes on the methods to be adopted to check and extirpate them (1891) (14802200513)

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Title: A handbook of the destructive insects of Victoria, with notes on the methods to be adopted to check and extirpate them
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Victoria. Dept. of Agriculture French, Charles, 1843- Tippmann Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS
Subjects: Insect pests Insects
Publisher: Melbourne, R. S. Brain, Government Printer
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries



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ist, they should be packed in a tin box with perforatedsides, and in which some grass, green but not damp,should be placed. Any of the hawk moths, either in thelarval or pupa stages, would be acceptable, such beingrequired for the Museum of Economic Entomology nowin contemplation. 114 DESTRUCTIVE INSECTS OF VICTORIA. PLATE XXX. Phylloxera, or Grape Louse of the Vine (Phylloxeravastatrix.—planchon).Fig. 1. Egg recently laid. 2. Egg near hatching. 3. Hatching of young phylloxera. 4. Larva at the first stage. 5. Larva at the second stage. 6 and 7. Third age, ripper and under side.8. Female of the galls, a little longer than the preceding one.9 and 10. Pupas, above and below, a little longer the female apter.11 and 12. Winged female, above and below. 13. Male. 14. Impregnated female. 15. Egg from which the male proceeds. 16. Egg from which the female proceeds. Note.—All the above figures are highly magnified, and have beendrawn from the illustrations issued by Hachette and Co., Paris.
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Plate XXX. THE PHYLLOXERA, OR GRAPE LOUSE OF THE VINE. 117 CHAPTER XXXV. THE PHYLLOXERA, OR GRAPE LOUSE OF THE VINE. (Phylloxera vastatrix. Planchon.) Order : Hemiptera. Sub-order : Homoptera. Family : Aphides. The aerial apterous or wingless female of this most ter-rible scourge to the vignerons of Europe, America, andelsewhere, has, according to Mr. Buckton, from whosefine work the scientific descriptions here given have beentaken, a body nearly circular, flask-shaped, drawn outat the tail, which ends in a short and truncated ovipositor.Colour amber-yellow, fuscous or ferruginous ; spottedfrom the numerous eggs which fill the body cavity. Headand tail-ends slightly browner. Eyes black, and verysmall. Antenna? short and very fine, three jointed, thelast being much the longest. Legs very small, scarcelyprotruding beyond the body. Rostrum about one-fourththe length of the body. This insect is the immediate produce of the true ovum,which was laid in the autumn by the sexed female. Herhi