Guide to the study of insects and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops, for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . ^ivJE Erichson. This family, the Lamellicornia ofLatreille, is one of immense extent, being divided into morethan 700 genera, comprising some 6,000 species, or three- 452 fourths as many Coleoptera as are known to live in thiscountry. They comprise the mammoths among insects, and itis in the tropics that we meet Avith the most numerous andbizarre, as well as gigantic forms. Alwaysreadily recognized by their clubbed lamel-late
Guide to the study of insects and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops, for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . ^ivJE Erichson. This family, the Lamellicornia ofLatreille, is one of immense extent, being divided into morethan 700 genera, comprising some 6,000 species, or three- 452 fourths as many Coleoptera as are known to live in thiscountry. They comprise the mammoths among insects, and itis in the tropics that we meet Avith the most numerous andbizarre, as well as gigantic forms. Alwaysreadily recognized by their clubbed lamel-late antennae, the terminal joints beingexpanded into broad flat leaves, which, atthe will of the insect, can be closely shutinto a compact club, or loosely expandedfan-like, and laid under the projecting cly-peus, so overhanging the mouth-parts asto give rise to the terms beetle-horned,and beetling; these insects, by theirFig. 404. robust, thick, often square body, short fos- sorial legs, with large hooked claws for seizing leaves andstems, have been well known to all observing persons, howeverslight their entomological knowledge. The larva3 are thickand fleshy cylindrical grubs, with a corneous head, and ratherlong four-jointed antennfB ; the ocelli are generally wanting;the legs are stout and long, without claws, and the last ab-dom
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