Marvels of insect life ; a popular account of structure and habit . ary in character andits feet are now two-jointed, but poorly developed. It remains quietlv undergroundin its cell for about two weeks, and then changes into an ordinary is the last stage but one, and it extends to about twenty days ; then the bright little beetle emerges and proceeds to feedupon the leaves of its food-plants and tofind a mate. Owing to its shining greencolour it is not easy to see the beetle uponthe leaves, but its presence is revealed bya peculiar odour it gives forth. The remarkable thi
Marvels of insect life ; a popular account of structure and habit . ary in character andits feet are now two-jointed, but poorly developed. It remains quietlv undergroundin its cell for about two weeks, and then changes into an ordinary is the last stage but one, and it extends to about twenty days ; then the bright little beetle emerges and proceeds to feedupon the leaves of its food-plants and tofind a mate. Owing to its shining greencolour it is not easy to see the beetle uponthe leaves, but its presence is revealed bya peculiar odour it gives forth. The remarkable thing about thisseries of changes is what has been calledthe false-pupa stage. \Mien it assumes theform of a flys puparium, one would expectthat it would change into a chrysaliswithin. A similar stage—as we shall see—occurs only in a few other beetles, andthese all have somewhat similar the metamorphosis departs from theusual course of the Insects which exhibitthree distinct changes of form after theNemoptera. egg-stage, it has been described as hyper-.
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