. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 386 THE LADYBIRD. yellowish-oi"ange. The whole of tlie body is boklly marked with deep black and snowy-white of a silvery lustre. The Plectodera scalator, a much larger species, belongs also to the Longicorns, and, like the preceding species, is marked with black and white, thougli the arrangement of the tints is different. The largest of the Tortoise Beetles, or Cassidida?, is the Aspidomorpha ampUssima. This broad and Hat insect is found in the Philippines. These insects derive th
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 386 THE LADYBIRD. yellowish-oi"ange. The whole of tlie body is boklly marked with deep black and snowy-white of a silvery lustre. The Plectodera scalator, a much larger species, belongs also to the Longicorns, and, like the preceding species, is marked with black and white, thougli the arrangement of the tints is different. The largest of the Tortoise Beetles, or Cassidida?, is the Aspidomorpha ampUssima. This broad and Hat insect is found in the Philippines. These insects derive their popular name from the tortoise-like shape of the body, which is so expanded that the whole of the limbs are concealed under its shelter. Many of these beetles are a light green, or greenish brown, and when they are stationary upon a leaf they can with diflBculty be distinguished. The larva is remarkable for possessing a large forked api)endage upon the end of the tail, which turns over the back and is loaded with excrementitious substances, so that the creature can hardly be seen under the load which it bears. In the present species the body is chestnut-brown, aud the elytra are furnished with wide, thin, and semi-tiunsparent margins. Their centre is spotted with black. Passing by several families, we come to our last example of the Coleoptera, the Chryso- mela cerealis, a member of a vei-y large family. All the Chrysomelidse are round-bodied, and in most cases are very brilliantly colored with shining green, purple, blue and gold, of a peculiar l>ut indescribable lustre. They are slow. 2 3 1 \jAXyTBTKDS.—l. HicTOspis duodecimpviLCtaUi. (Id luitural tsize.) 2. Coccinelta septempimctata and two larvtt. (lu natural eize.) 3. Its magnified iarva among aphides. 4. CoccimUa imimstutala. (In natural size.) 5. Two dilTureut specimens of Cocdnella dispar. 6. ChUocorm blpustu- laiuis. (In natural size.) The lino indicates tlie average length of these beetles. walkers, but grasp
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