Natural history of insects : comprising their architecture, transformations, senses, food, habits--collection, preservation and arrangement . ^ests of the Gi-uhs of Ephemera. A. The grub. B. Perforations in a river bank. C. One laidopen to show the parallel structure. In the bank of the stream at Lee in Kent, we hadoccasion to take up an old willow stump, which, pre-vious to its being driven into the bank, had been per-forated in numerous places by the caterpillar of the EARTH-MASON CATERPILLARS. 207 goat-moth (Ccssiis ligniperda). From having beendriven amongst the moist clay, these perforati
Natural history of insects : comprising their architecture, transformations, senses, food, habits--collection, preservation and arrangement . ^ests of the Gi-uhs of Ephemera. A. The grub. B. Perforations in a river bank. C. One laidopen to show the parallel structure. In the bank of the stream at Lee in Kent, we hadoccasion to take up an old willow stump, which, pre-vious to its being driven into the bank, had been per-forated in numerous places by the caterpillar of the EARTH-MASON CATERPILLARS. 207 goat-moth (Ccssiis ligniperda). From having beendriven amongst the moist clay, these perforations be-came filied with it, and the grubs of the ephemereefound them very suitable for their habitation; for thev/ood supphed a more secure protection than if theirgalleries had been excavated in the clay, [n theseholes of the wood v/e found several empty, and somein which were full grov> n grubs.*. Nats of Ephetntrain holes ofCosiUS. The architecture of the grub of a pretty genus ofbeetles, known to entomologists hy the name of Ct-cindelay is peculiarly interesting. It was first madeknown by the eminent French naturalists, Geofiroy,Besmarest, and Latreille. This grub, which maybe with during spring, and also in summerand autumn, in sandy places, is long, cylindric, soft,whitish, and furnished with six brown scaly feet. Thehead is of a square form, with six or eight eyes,and veiy large in proportion to the body. They havestrong jaws, and on the eighth joint of the body thereare two fleshy tubercles, thickly clothed with reddishhairs, and armed with a recurved horny spine, thewhole giving to the grub the form of the letter Z. With their jaws and feet they dig into the earth tothe depth of eighteen inches, forming a cyhndricalcavity of greater diameter than their body, and fur-nished with a perpendicular entrance. In construct- * J. R. 208 INSECT ARCHITECTURE. ing this, the gr
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