Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . n. Thename Telecinus literally means a pelican, and why it shouldbe applied to the insect is more than I can understand. One more point must be mentioned. Everything in Naturehas its uses. The femalo Megalyra has a long ovipositorbecause she is needed to layeggs in deeply hidden male performs no suchtask, and consequently has noovipositor. In the present in-stance, the greatly elongatedabdomen only belongs to thefemale, that of the male beingshort and club-shaped. As to the ty
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . n. Thename Telecinus literally means a pelican, and why it shouldbe applied to the insect is more than I can understand. One more point must be mentioned. Everything in Naturehas its uses. The femalo Megalyra has a long ovipositorbecause she is needed to layeggs in deeply hidden male performs no suchtask, and consequently has noovipositor. In the present in-stance, the greatly elongatedabdomen only belongs to thefemale, that of the male beingshort and club-shaped. As to the typical genus Ich-neumon, it is so vast, and con-tains such multitudes of species,that the mere sight of the crea-tures is enough to make anyonerecoil in despair from , for example, the collec-tion at the British Museum. Apositive army of Ichneumonsis already arranged, while thereare multitudes awaiting theirturn for being named andclassified. None are large, while some are exceedingly minute—being so small that they are fixed on cardboard, the finest pinbeing too coarse for their tiny /5? wM 1 i J, \ ?,r-.\ ?--.; :•: Pig. 193.—Ichneumon arrogator.(Black and yellow.) 393 INSECTS ABROAD. The species selected for illustration is on account of its beingone of the largest of the group, and so gives a good idea of thegeneral form and structure of those iusects. Its colour is almostentirely black, but the basal part of the abdomen is yellow, thiscolour extending to some two-thirds of its length. The wingsare dark brown and rather shining. It is remarkable that,although this genus is so enormous, there is scarcely any rangeof colour, the hues being nothing but black, grey, and yellow ;and even the last mentioned hue being of a dull nature. The present species is a native of Albania. The fine insect from which the accompanying illustrationwas drawn is in the British Museum, and, as far as is known,is an unique specimen. V It was brought from Natal.
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