Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . ltogether thisis a very common insect, andscarcely looks like a Hister. It ,., is so bio- and so rounded, that it ° Fig. 40.—Hister gigas. much more resembles one of the (Steci bhukj Dor Beetles, more especially as the armed fore-legs of both insects are almost identical in shape. The last of the Necrophaga which can be mentioned in thiswork belongs to the family of the Nitidulidse. None of themare large Beetles, and, though they belong to the Necrophaga,many of them are found on flowers
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . ltogether thisis a very common insect, andscarcely looks like a Hister. It ,., is so bio- and so rounded, that it ° Fig. 40.—Hister gigas. much more resembles one of the (Steci bhukj Dor Beetles, more especially as the armed fore-legs of both insects are almost identical in shape. The last of the Necrophaga which can be mentioned in thiswork belongs to the family of the Nitidulidse. None of themare large Beetles, and, though they belong to the Necrophaga,many of them are found on flowers, under the bark of trees, andin the nests of hymenopterous insects. Of these last, our ownspecies are mostly found in ants nests, but that which is hererepresented inhabits the nest of a wild bee, called Trigona, in-habiting tropical America and New Holland. The nest of this bee is very curious. It is not placed withina hollow tree or underground, as are the nests of most socialhoney-sucking bees, but is hung to the end of a branch, thetough wax being plastered against the boughs so firmly that the.
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