. 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. Female. Male Cynips tenninalis. only contain one larva. The cellule is moderately capacious, butthe walls are very thick ; nevertheless, the little Cynips perforatesthem without much difficulty, in order to come to the light ofday. The rose fungus is one
. 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. Female. Male Cynips tenninalis. only contain one larva. The cellule is moderately capacious, butthe walls are very thick ; nevertheless, the little Cynips perforatesthem without much difficulty, in order to come to the light ofday. The rose fungus is one of the most curious galls ; it is pro-duced by a Cynips, and is found upon the hedge roses and sweet-briars. The adult insect which produces these excrescences isabout the fifth of an inch long. Its transparent wings areslightly clouded, and it is of a glossy black colour. The femaleslay their eggs towards the end of May or the beginning of June,and the galls soon form, but they grow at first very slowly, andsubsequently quickly, so that they attain their full size on theapproach of cold weather. Sometimes the galls are round, orflat, at others they are irregular in shape, and resemble medlars,and they are about the same size as those fruits. They are THE CYNIPSIDAl. 183 moss-Iike in texture, and appear to be composed of branchingfila
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