Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . sts of four joints, and theprojections are flatter than in the Stag Beetles. The whole body,too, is rather flattened. Our insect is a small one, measuring only an inch in length,but the gigantic Beetle which represents the foreign Dorcidse isfour times that length, and correspondingly large in every name is Eurytrachelus Titan. 104 INSECTS ABROAD. Both names arc appropriate. The generic name, Eurijtrachclus,is formed from two Greek words signifying broad-necked, and,as may be
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . sts of four joints, and theprojections are flatter than in the Stag Beetles. The whole body,too, is rather flattened. Our insect is a small one, measuring only an inch in length,but the gigantic Beetle which represents the foreign Dorcidse isfour times that length, and correspondingly large in every name is Eurytrachelus Titan. 104 INSECTS ABROAD. Both names arc appropriate. The generic name, Eurijtrachclus,is formed from two Greek words signifying broad-necked, and,as may be seen by reference to the illustration, one of the principalcharacteristics of the insect is its thick, sturdy form, the neck beingas wide as any part of the body, and hardly any break of outlinedenoting the distinction between head, thorax, and peculiar form is the sure sign of a boring insect, and enablesthe creature to pass easily through passages in which any differ-ence in diameter would cause it to stick fast. The name Titanis taken from that of the well-known mythological giant, the. Fio. 48 — EurytraehWus Titan.(Black.) eldest brother and rival of Saturn. This is indeed a very Titanamong the Dorcida?, though there is one of them, Dorcns Antceus,which does not fall very far short of the dimensions of the is scarcely necessary to remind the classical reader thatAntaeus was another of the race of giants, and that his nameis in consequence conferred upon a gigantic insect. When the enormous and powerful jaws of the insect areclosed, their armed points cross each other considerably, theright jaw passing above the left. The formidable teeth whichspring from the centre of the jaw not only cross, but one passes DIFFERENCE OF TEXTURE 105 just under the other, so that when the mandibles are tightly-closed, scarcely any space is left between them. The colour of this Beetle is simply black, but it has a sort ofsatiny appearance which can only be explained by
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