Insects at home; being a popular account of insects, their structure, habits and transformations . ike a row of beads on astring, and the mandibles are notched at their tips. The first family of this section is named Blaptidse, and itsmembers are known by the securiform, or hatchet-shaped lastjoint of the maxillary palpi, and the long femora of the hindlegs. The wings are not developed, and the elytra are solderedtogether. In England we only have one genus of this family,containing three species. That which we will take as our typeis the Churchyard Beetle [Blaps mortisaga), which is repre-sent
Insects at home; being a popular account of insects, their structure, habits and transformations . ike a row of beads on astring, and the mandibles are notched at their tips. The first family of this section is named Blaptidse, and itsmembers are known by the securiform, or hatchet-shaped lastjoint of the maxillary palpi, and the long femora of the hindlegs. The wings are not developed, and the elytra are solderedtogether. In England we only have one genus of this family,containing three species. That which we will take as our typeis the Churchyard Beetle [Blaps mortisaga), which is repre-sented on Woodcut XV. Fig. 1, the antenna being shown atFig. df below the insect. All the species belonging to this 144 INSECTS AT HOME. genus are—to use a word which I do not like to apply toinsects—ugly. They are dull, dead-black in colour, are won-derfully sluggish, crawling slowly as if afflicted with rheum-atism, and always frequenting damp, dark, and dismal often found in the mmkiest crannies of cellars, they havegained the popular and appropriate title of Cellar Beetles. XV.
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