Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . Fig. 51i3.—Elaphomyia cervicornis.(Yellowish brown.) Our last example of the Stag-horned Flies is also a nativeof Dorey. The head of the male is blackish brown, streaked with yellowin front. The eyes are very protruding, and just below them isa short, rounded, and rather flattened projection which takesthe place of the horn. The colour is brownish black, but acrossthe footstalk of the abdomen passes a bar of yellowT. The reader 3 D I I II [NSECTS ABROAD. Fio. 517.—Elaphomyia brevicornis.
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . Fig. 51i3.—Elaphomyia cervicornis.(Yellowish brown.) Our last example of the Stag-horned Flies is also a nativeof Dorey. The head of the male is blackish brown, streaked with yellowin front. The eyes are very protruding, and just below them isa short, rounded, and rather flattened projection which takesthe place of the horn. The colour is brownish black, but acrossthe footstalk of the abdomen passes a bar of yellowT. The reader 3 D I I II [NSECTS ABROAD. Fio. 517.—Elaphomyia brevicornis.(Brown.) will doubtless observe the remarkable shape of the wings. Instead of having the upperedge nearly straight, as isthe usual custom with in-sects, it is much thickenedin the middle, and formedinto an angular length of the insect israther less than half aninch. The remarkable fly whichis given in the accompany-ing illustration inhabits theUnited States. It is called Militaris, be-cause in its larval state itis parasitic oil the ArmyWorm, the caterpillar of Leucaria unipunctata, whichtraverses the country in vast hosts, completely devastatingwhole fields of the grain and grass crops. Nothing stops thembut a deep ditch with perpendicular sides, and when such aditch is cut across their line of progress, it is often found filledto a considerable depth with a seething, moving mass of i , larvae. Many stupid people, onseeing the Exorista emergefrom the Army Worm, tookit into their heads that itwas the parent of the cater-pillar, an
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