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n. - Type genus of typical earwigs.

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  • But she does give instructions for making Scotch Woodcock, Fish Overlay and Beef Collops, as well as a description of an instrument for serving asparagus nicknamed a...
  • Blatta, Mantis, Forficula, Ephemera, Libellula, etc. I may refer to a corresponding remarkable example from the vegetable world: amongst Ferns the genera Aneimia,...
  • Forficula auricularia) feeds at night on shoots and roots of many agricultural crops, earwigs are usually not considered pests.
  • Forficula, Fig. 158, in which the suture is the same), and the insertion of the antennæ is removed far down the front, near the mouth, the clypeus being very short; this...
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