Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . has an aspect very much like that of ascorpion. M. Montrouzier remarks that it swarms in marshy groundswhere the sago-palms grow. Yet, although it is so plentiful,he could not succeed in keeping any of the insects alive, as theyall refused to eat, no matter what food he provided for is a dark-loving insect, always crouching into the shadewhen set at liberty- and being found mostly hidden under theparasitic vegetation that in that climate grows so thickly on thetrunks of old trees
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . has an aspect very much like that of ascorpion. M. Montrouzier remarks that it swarms in marshy groundswhere the sago-palms grow. Yet, although it is so plentiful,he could not succeed in keeping any of the insects alive, as theyall refused to eat, no matter what food he provided for is a dark-loving insect, always crouching into the shadewhen set at liberty- and being found mostly hidden under theparasitic vegetation that in that climate grows so thickly on thetrunks of old trees. He calls it by the name of Karabidion. For some time he thought that it was only the larval form of LAEVA OF EURYCANTHA. 305 some insect, not even a trace of wings or elytra being discover-able. But, as some of his specimens laid eggs which afterwardswere hatched, there was no doubt that the insects had attainedtheir perfect stage. On an average, each female lays about onehundred eggs, and when the young larvae emerge they are aboutan inch long, and look like little black threads rather Fig. 150.—Euryrantha Tyrrhiea.(Pale grey-brown.) The illustration represents the species about half its propersize, as a full-sized drawing would nearly occupy the entirepage. There are many species of this curious genus, varying consider-ably in size and colour, and they are spread over a considerableportion of the world. There is, for example, Eurycantha Australis,which is found on Lord Howes Island, and which has the barrel-shaped hind legs of the male sex strongly developed. The otherspecies present few poiuts of interest, except that one, Eury-cantha olivacea, a native of Ceylon, is green instead of brown. 3m; INSECTS A3R0AD. Herb we have an insect, the male r which is nol known,[ndeed, bo dissimilaT are often the sexes in the Phasmide, thatit is rather difficult to avoid the danger of Labelling the maleand Female as belonging to two different species. This insect has thre
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