. British insects : a familiar description of the form, structure, habits, and transformations of insects. f some of the miningand boring species, as the nut-weevil, arefootless grubs, merely furnished with tu-bercles, or small fleshy prominences, which,somewhat like the false legs of the cater-pillar, aid the insect in such motion asis necessary. Others, again, as the underground, root-eating Cock-chafer larvae (fig, 38), are strange, clumsy-lookingFig. 38. animals, rendered totally incapable of walking on the surface of theearth by the large, curved, lumpytermination to their bodies. Some lo
. British insects : a familiar description of the form, structure, habits, and transformations of insects. f some of the miningand boring species, as the nut-weevil, arefootless grubs, merely furnished with tu-bercles, or small fleshy prominences, which,somewhat like the false legs of the cater-pillar, aid the insect in such motion asis necessary. Others, again, as the underground, root-eating Cock-chafer larvae (fig, 38), are strange, clumsy-lookingFig. 38. animals, rendered totally incapable of walking on the surface of theearth by the large, curved, lumpytermination to their bodies. Some long terrestrial larvae, as ofthe Glowworm, the brachelytrous beetles, and such of the Skipjacks asLarva of Melolontha ^ i . i xi, • i {Cockchafer). ^^6 not Subterranean, have their long (Less than nat. size.) ^nd slender abdomens supported, likethe caterpillar, by a terminal false leg, whilst the Wire-worm, an underground larva in the latter family, is hard,stiff, cylindrical, and pointed. It is not, however, to be supposed that running afterfood, or crawling after it, or quietly living in its
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