. Homes without hands : being a description of the habitations of animals, classed according to their principle of construction . Animals. SGOLTTUS. 187 clocks, and other earth-boring beetles, depart from that form, but when we come to look at the scolytus, the ptinus, and other wood-borers, we can not but notice how very cylindrical they are in their shape. Perhaps there is no wood-boring beetle which is known so well as the little insect which is called Scolytus destmctor. I am not aware that it has a popular name that will distinguish it from other small beetles which bore into Scoly
. Homes without hands : being a description of the habitations of animals, classed according to their principle of construction . Animals. SGOLTTUS. 187 clocks, and other earth-boring beetles, depart from that form, but when we come to look at the scolytus, the ptinus, and other wood-borers, we can not but notice how very cylindrical they are in their shape. Perhaps there is no wood-boring beetle which is known so well as the little insect which is called Scolytus destmctor. I am not aware that it has a popular name that will distinguish it from other small beetles which bore into Scolytus. The accompanying illustration will probably call to the mind of the reader the insect which now comes before our notice. If he should have examined the bark of certain trees, particularly that of the elm, he will often have seen that it is perforated with circular holes, very like those which are drilled into worm-eaten furniture, but of rather larger diameter. When I was a very lit- tle boy and V first saw these holes, I thought that they had been made by shot, and in trying to pick out the shot with my knife, made the discovery that the holes were not due to fire-arms, but to insects. The pleasure of the discovery nearly compensated for the disappointment concerning the shot, the possession of which seenied to my boyish mind to be a manly trait of character, and calculated to raise me in the eyes of my playfellows. If the,bark be cut through, and then raised with the knife, the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889; Keyl, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1823-1871; Smith, E. A. (Edward Alfred); Pearson, G. (George). New York : Harper & Brothers
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