The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . h rejoicing in thespring. The wireworm has been so designated from its ex-treme toughness. That of Elater lineatus is verysmooth and shining, of an ochreous colour, with a fewhairs scattered over its body ; it is semicylindrical, thehead is flattened or wedge-shaped, with two little horns,and a minute eye-like dot on each side; the mouth ispitchy, and furnished -with two strong horny mandibles,maxilliE, palpi, &c. ; the body is composed of 12 seg-ments, the first thoracic one being, the longest, the twofollowing the shortest; to these are att
The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . h rejoicing in thespring. The wireworm has been so designated from its ex-treme toughness. That of Elater lineatus is verysmooth and shining, of an ochreous colour, with a fewhairs scattered over its body ; it is semicylindrical, thehead is flattened or wedge-shaped, with two little horns,and a minute eye-like dot on each side; the mouth ispitchy, and furnished -with two strong horny mandibles,maxilliE, palpi, &c. ; the body is composed of 12 seg-ments, the first thoracic one being, the longest, the twofollowing the shortest; to these are attached three pairsof small bristly legs composed of four joints, terminatedby a simple claw ; the eight following segments have aspiracle on each side, the apical one is long and conical,with two large spiracles near the base, and a prehensilefoot beneath : fig. 2, fig. 3, magnified. The pupa is ofa yellowish-white colour, elliptical, the head obtuse, withtwo little tubercles; the tail is furnished with two move-able and pointed appendages. -^^. The beetle named by Linn^us Elater lineatus is of adull brown colour, with short ochreous depressed hairs;the horns are not long, but compressed, rusty, and 11-jointed, the basal joint being the largest and stoutest,the second and third the smallest, and obovate; thehead is rather large and bent down, thickly andminutely punctured ; the eyes are lateral, small, black,and shining ; the thorax is similarly punctured, veryconvex and suborbicular, the front being a little trun-cated, the hinder angles projecting, aud forming twotrigouate spines of an ochreous colour ; there is also afaint channel down the centre ; the scutel is depressed,and rather circular ; the elytra are more than twice aslong as the thorax, and elliptical, the apex conical; theyare minutely punctured with nine punctured stris oneach ; the alternate spaces ferruginous or cinereous ;the ample wings are folded beneath them in repose ; theunderside of the thorax is furnished
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