. The transformations (or metamorphoses) of insects (Insecta, Myriapoda, Arachnida, and Crustacea) : being an adaptation, for English readers, of M. Émile Blanchard's "Metamorphoses, moeurs et instincts des insects;" and a compilation from the works of Newport, Charles Darwin, Spence Bate, Fritz Müller, Packard, Lubbock, Stainton, and others. THE METAMORPHOSES OF Una populi. appendage, which is attached to the end of the body and curvedforwards above the insect. The vent is situated at the base ofthis appendage, and the matters coming from it stick on to thefork which is hoisted up above the b
. The transformations (or metamorphoses) of insects (Insecta, Myriapoda, Arachnida, and Crustacea) : being an adaptation, for English readers, of M. Émile Blanchard's "Metamorphoses, moeurs et instincts des insects;" and a compilation from the works of Newport, Charles Darwin, Spence Bate, Fritz Müller, Packard, Lubbock, Stainton, and others. THE METAMORPHOSES OF Una populi. appendage, which is attached to the end of the body and curvedforwards above the insect. The vent is situated at the base ofthis appendage, and the matters coming from it stick on to thefork which is hoisted up above the body with the lump of dirtupon it like a parasol. The poplar trees are frequently much damaged by somespecies of the genus Limi. The adult beetle is of a greenbronze colour, and has red elytra, but the larva is yellow and is THE COCCINELLA SEPTEMPUXCTATA. 335 Spotted with brilliant black. Tiie larva destroys the foliage,and eats the cellular tissue of the leaves, but does not touch thenervures, so that they look very much like lace work. When. MIL AMUKTHuMs ul THE LADY BIRD. (Coccinella septempunctata.) about to undergo its metamorphosis the larva hangs itself to aleaf by its tail, and after a time the skin cracks and the nymphmay be seen underneath, but it remains thus protected until itis transformed into the beetle. The nymph is represented hanging from a leaf, the larvit 332 TRANSFORMATIONS OF INSECTS. are making lace work of the leaves, and the beetles arc crawlingupon the plants. This hanging up of the nymph resembles thefavourite position of many chrysalides of the Lcpidoptcra, andit is somewhat remarkable that another genus of these beetleshas larvai which construct movable tubes, in which they live,and which they carry about after the fashion of many caterpillars. The last family of the order of the Colcoptcra that comesunder our notice is that of the Coccincllidic, or the Lady are great favourites with children, and even with col-lectors ; and popula
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