Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . possiblycould be. In England, such a richly-mantled pool would haveyielded an abundance of Donaciee, Chrysomelee, Cassida>, andoilier Beetles—here I could not find a single specimen. Neithercould 1 find any Water Beetles ; the only exception was a speciesof Gyrinus, about the same size as Qyrinus ncdator, the littleshining Whirligig Beetle of Europe, which was seen in smallgroups in shady corners, spinning round on the surface of thewater precisely as its congener does in England. WAT
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . possiblycould be. In England, such a richly-mantled pool would haveyielded an abundance of Donaciee, Chrysomelee, Cassida>, andoilier Beetles—here I could not find a single specimen. Neithercould 1 find any Water Beetles ; the only exception was a speciesof Gyrinus, about the same size as Qyrinus ncdator, the littleshining Whirligig Beetle of Europe, which was seen in smallgroups in shady corners, spinning round on the surface of thewater precisely as its congener does in England. WATER BEETLES. 07 After examining carefully a vast number of foreign WaterBeetles, I find that they are so exactly like our own familiarinsects in size, shape, colour, and habits, that three exampleswill be quite sufficient to illustrate the whole of the Hydra-dephaga, numerous though they be. The species which is shown in the illustration, Dyticus latis-dmus, is certainly the most conspicuous of these Beetles, andyet, as the reader may see, does not differ remarkably from Dyticus Fig. 26.— Dyticus latissiimis.(Brown, orange lines.) The colours are the same, though perhaps rather ground hue is very dark brown with an infusion of green,and this, besides orange, is the only colour. Round the edgesof the thorax runs a band of orange, so as to leave a nearlysquare dark patch in the middle. Along the outer edge of theelytra there is a similar band, and there is another a little wayinside it, running from the base of the elytron to the point, andrapidly becoming narrower as it approaches the tip. Thissecond stripe forms the most conspicuous portion of the colour-ing, and is well shown in the illustration. There is also nearthe tip of the elytra a very faint and undefined stripe of orangedrawn diagonally across, and looking as if it had been made f 2 68 INSECTS ABROAD. with a brash on a wetted surface. This streak varies somewhatin different indivi
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