Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . y sharp point at the end. The elytra are very wide,folding over the sides of the abdomen so as to cover a full half 176 INSECTS ABROAD. of it. Their upper surface is covered with large knobs runningin longitudinal lines and very regularly arranged. These knobsare, in fact, nothing more than partly developed ridges, and thesame can be said of any Beetle whose elytra are covered withsymmetrically arranged knobs. As in the last-mentioned insect, the hind legs are long, but in the Adesmia it
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . y sharp point at the end. The elytra are very wide,folding over the sides of the abdomen so as to cover a full half 176 INSECTS ABROAD. of it. Their upper surface is covered with large knobs runningin longitudinal lines and very regularly arranged. These knobsare, in fact, nothing more than partly developed ridges, and thesame can be said of any Beetle whose elytra are covered withsymmetrically arranged knobs. As in the last-mentioned insect, the hind legs are long, but in the Adesmia it is thetibia and not the tarsus which islengthened. There are manyspecies of Adesmia, nearly all ofwhich are black, so that thepresent insect, which is a nativeof Old Calabar, looks quite hand-some among its duller specific name variolarissignifies pitted with small-pox,and is snven to the insect in allu- O sion to the knobs or pustules with which the elytra are covered. The family of the Zopherida; is represented by a member ofthe typical genus Zophcrus Brvmii. Before proceeding further,. Fig. 81.—Adesmia variolaris.(Brown.)
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