Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . genus this joint isbohly crescentic in its shape. That the exotic Erotvlides are fungus-eaters like our Britishspecies, is evident from the observations made upon the larvaof Erotylus swrinamensis. The perfect insects are always to befound about boleti, and within these fungi the larvae are are rather large, white, flat-bodied grubs, with short, sharp,sturdy jaws supported on a black head, which can be withdrawninto a cavity in the front of the thorax. It is smooth, but onthe
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . genus this joint isbohly crescentic in its shape. That the exotic Erotvlides are fungus-eaters like our Britishspecies, is evident from the observations made upon the larvaof Erotylus swrinamensis. The perfect insects are always to befound about boleti, and within these fungi the larvae are are rather large, white, flat-bodied grubs, with short, sharp,sturdy jaws supported on a black head, which can be withdrawninto a cavity in the front of the thorax. It is smooth, but onthe first segment of the body there is a soft, fleshy tubercle,from which issues a pale, scented liquid, the object of which isquite unknown. Mr. AVestwood, to whom I am indebted for the above account,gives,in his Introduction to Entomology, a figure of the larvaof an allied species, which in many respects is very much likethat of our English Erotylidae, save that it is much larger. The exact position of the family of the Langnriidae, and itsrelationship to the other families, are matters respecting which. Flo. 134.—Fatua Wi (Yellow and black.) there has been much doubt. As, however, they arc placed nextto the Erotylidse in the British Museum, we will accept thatarrangement. This species, Fatua Weidmannii, comes from China. The legsare very long, especially the first pair, which have the thighsmuch elongated and slightly bent, and the tibiae of moderatedimensions and rather boldly curved. The antennae are alsolong, and have little tufts of stiff hair at each joint. The colour of the head and thorax is yellowish and partly LADY-BIRDS. 271 translucent, so as to give them a horny aspect. They are pro-fusely covered with punctures. The elytra are puncto-striate, have parallel rows of punctures drawn along them fromthe base to the tip. In the specimen represented above, thecolour is black, but there are several examples in the BritishMuseum which are brown. In size, as
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