Entomology for beginners; for the use of young folks, fruitgrowers, farmers, and gardeners; . FIG. 78.—Myrmeleon, and a, its larva, the ant-lion. bottom with its jaws wide open, ready to seize any luckless insectwhich may fall in. Mantispa (Figs. 79, 80) is noteworthy from thestrange habits of its larva, which passes through two stages, the 88 ENTOMOLOGY. first of the normal form of the order, when it lives in the cocoons ofspiders; before the first moult it loses the use of its feet, and begins. Fig. 7U. Fig. 80. FIG. 79.—Mantispa interrupta Say; and side view of the same without wings. Natur
Entomology for beginners; for the use of young folks, fruitgrowers, farmers, and gardeners; . FIG. 78.—Myrmeleon, and a, its larva, the ant-lion. bottom with its jaws wide open, ready to seize any luckless insectwhich may fall in. Mantispa (Figs. 79, 80) is noteworthy from thestrange habits of its larva, which passes through two stages, the 88 ENTOMOLOGY. first of the normal form of the order, when it lives in the cocoons ofspiders; before the first moult it loses the use of its feet, and begins. Fig. 7U. Fig. 80. FIG. 79.—Mantispa interrupta Say; and side view of the same without wings. Natural size.—Emerton del. FIG. 80.—Freshly-hatched larva of Mantispa styriaca, 80o.— Larva of the same, but older, before the first moult. Enlarged.— After Brauer. to change its form, until when fully grown it is cylindrical, withsmall feet and a small round head, much as in caterpillars. • ORDER X. MECAPTERA* (Scorpion-flies). We have given this name to the Panorpidas, which havefeatures separating them from the true Neuroptera. Thefront of the head is greatly elongated into a sort of beak,the clypeus being very long, and the minute mandibles aresituated at the end of the snout. The prothorax is verysmall; and in the shape of the thorax as a whole, and in * SELECTED WORKS. Brauer, F. See Neuroptera. Hagen, H. A. Synopsis of N. A. Neuroptera. Packard, A. S. (External anatomy, in third report U. S. Entom. Com-mission, 1883, 342, PI. LIX, LX). Westwood, J. 0. Monograph
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