. Elementary entomology. Insects. ELEMENTARY ENT( )M( )LOGY flowers and leaves of roses and grapes. It is a pale yellowish beetle, three eighths of an inch long, somewhat hairy, with long, pale red legs. All of the leaf-chafers have long, spiny legs, whose use they do not seem to have mastered, for they are ridiculously. FIG. 217. The rhinoceros beetle (Dinastes tityrus}. (Natural size) (After Kellogg) awkward in walking. The largest beetle of this country is the rhi- noceros beetle (Dynastcs tityrns}, which is two and one half inches long, greenish-gray with black spots, and is named from the
. Elementary entomology. Insects. ELEMENTARY ENT( )M( )LOGY flowers and leaves of roses and grapes. It is a pale yellowish beetle, three eighths of an inch long, somewhat hairy, with long, pale red legs. All of the leaf-chafers have long, spiny legs, whose use they do not seem to have mastered, for they are ridiculously. FIG. 217. The rhinoceros beetle (Dinastes tityrus}. (Natural size) (After Kellogg) awkward in walking. The largest beetle of this country is the rhi- noceros beetle (Dynastcs tityrns}, which is two and one half inches long, greenish-gray with black spots, and is named from the large horn on the head, which meets a median horn extending from the prothorax. It occurs in the South and West, and in the West Indies there is a similar species six inches long. Their larvae live in the roots of decaying trees. Another series of species are known as flower-beetles, from their habit of feeding on pollen, which they carry from flower to flower. A common species of this sort is FIG. 218. The bumble flower- the yellowish-brown bumble flower-beetle . (Twice (Euphoria iuda). It is half an inch long, quite hairy, and flies from flower to flower w[fa a 1OUCJ buzzing like that of a bumble- . i_ ,1 11 bee. Occasionally these beetles assemble on ripening peaches or other soft fruits, or lap up the sap from a wounded tree. A bright-green species (Allorhina nitida), two thirds of an inch long, is very common in the South, where it is often called the green June-bug, and frequently attacks ripening fruits. The larvae are white grubs which live in grasslands and often injure Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Sanderson, Dwight, 1878-1944; Jackson, C. F. (Cicero Floyd), b. 1882. Boston, New York [etc. ] Ginn and Company
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